News Roundup: Happy Fourth

• 625 more battery buses ($), and a new base for them.
• Kent charging ST $6.7m for permitting work.
• Mountlake Terrace permitting in its last throes.
• Open House about a North Sammamish Park and Ride on July 11th.
• Seattle approaching 750,000 residents, is the fastest-growing large city in Washington on a percentage basis (!)
• Amazon to build the tallest building in Bellevue next to the transit center and future station.
• SDOT quietly ruins another bike lane project.
• Sumner's 500-space Sounder garage ($) is "back on track."
• TriMet will study putting the MAX in a downtown tunnel.
• Oregon is about to effectively eliminate single-family zoning. The whole state.
• Google Maps can now tell you if your bus is crowded.

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