News Roundup: 100%

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• Pictures of what's going in above Capitol Hill Station, but the design review board is not yet satisfied.
• New contracts for East Link and Northgate Link.
• Mountlake Terrace approves Link right-of-way, though they are concerned ST will cheap out on the station design.
• Sound Transit has a new system map including ST3 expansion.
• The current form of the helmet law is obsolete ($). While it's better that the law be not enforced than enforced, this sort of officer discretion also leads to biased policing.
• Redmond says it wants its downtown station elevated, SE Redmond at-grade.
• Taxes on speculators, vacant properties may be illegal ($).
• Bellevue adopts 100% adaptive signal timing.
• Blocking a bike lane ($) actually does occasionally result in a ticket.
• CNN finds out about our new bikeshare utopia.
• There was a concrete strike ($), which affects everything. But now it's over ($).

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