Yeah when I saw the one in Atlanta I thought it might be closer but I remember my last nightmare drive through Atlanta. We took the bypass before and it wasn't too bad but we missed our turn that time and ended up straight through downtown with up to 10 lanes of traffic at once going in both directions. I am used to what I consider a big city LOL where the max it ever gets to is 6-8 total both directions not more than that going each way

Good luck and let us know how it goes. I am no expert and there is the chance the first vet was accurate (even though I have never heard of that I don't claim to have heard of everything )but on something like that I would definitely get a second opinion.