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TODAY IN SEATTLE-AREA HISTORY, Jan 31

   January 31, 2019
The last section of Interstate 5 from Everett to Tacoma is completed in 1967,with the final section of 15 miles from Dearborn Street near Seattle’s Beacon Hillto Kent-Des Moines Road South. The Legislature adopted the plan for a Tacoma-Seattle-Everett “superhighway” in 1953. Construction consumes 6,600 parcels of land, 4,500 of them in Seattle.
I-5 construction next to Greenlake looking south on July 11, 1964. Northward Ho: The freeway swath loomed large and wide in the foreground of this aerial view looking south over the North End. The freeway now is open to Northeast 75th Street and Bothell Way Northeast, top left. The section north to Northeast I 15th Street is expected to open late this year Heavy spring rainfall delayed construction. (Richard S. Heyza / The Seattle Times)
 
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