Interstate 5: A Seed Farm For Sprawling Suburbs
28 March 2001 - 9:00am
From Canada to Oregon, the cities along Interstate 5 are growing fast.
"Fed a steady diet of asphalt and concrete, the cities that line Interstate 5 from Canada to Oregon have grown thick and broad over the past 10 years, sprawling over additional land more than twice the size of Seattle's 88-square-mile footprint...Planned in the 1940s as a toll road through the state's most populated cities, the freeway moved people so well that it became one the state's most effective, albeit unintentional, growth planners -- a seed farm for suburbs."
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The 2000 Census: I-5 drives population increase
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The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March 27, 2001
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