Interstate 5: A Seed Farm For Sprawling Suburbs

From Canada to Oregon, the cities along Interstate 5 are growing fast.

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March 28, 2001, 9:00 AM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"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."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

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