"Nickels favors the most aggressive of four growth scenarios envisioned by planners, one that would add 350,000 people to Seattle's population, which now stands at about 575,000.....Nickels says the growth can be accomplished by allowing more apartment and condo towers in some parts of Seattle, while still protecting single-family neighborhoods."(from the seatttletimes)
That's some crazy growth. I dont know if this can actually be pulled off. With the Viaduct closing down for a few years to either be replaced, taken down or to build a tunnel, I don't even want to think about the traffic that 350,000 would bring to Seattle. Unlike other major cities, we just dont have the transportation infrastruction to move these people around the city. Now had we voted on the Monorail then the increase of population with the addition of the monorail would have been great. It will be interesting to see how the traffic situation is handled.
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