The Perth-Peel metropolitan area now stretches 150 kilometres from end-to-end. When will it stop?
@ajsadauskas@lemmy.ml Perth’s north-south suburban sprawl is now among the worst in the world:
"Stretching 150km along the coast from Two Rocks in the north to Mandurah in the south, the Perth-Peel metropolitan area’s length is starkly visible from space.
“Many consider it to be the longest city in the world — although it is not an exact science, and Sochi in Russia also has a claim.”
What’s to blame for all the sprawl? Yep, it’s cars and freeways.
“What turbo-charged the sprawl was population and the creation of the Narrows Bridge interchange, which provided a link across the Swan River and paved the way for the development of the Kwinana and Mitchell Freeways along the coast.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-28/perth-grapples-with-sprawl-longest-city-in-world/102151954
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