Maintaining the status quo when it comes to highway infrastructure is not enough, considering that, by 2050, the world’s network highways is anticipated to increase by sixty percent. At this time, change is a necessity, not an option. In the state of Georgia, huge developments are changing the perception of highway infrastructure, and The Ray C. Anderson Memorial Highway – also known as The Ray – an eighteen-mile stretch of Interstate 85, which enters Georgia at the Alabama state line, is proving to be instrumental in this transition.