Sometimes it seems like Seattle and Amazon have a symbiotic relationship.
"From booming jobs to gentrification, from omnipresent cranes to housing shortages, there’s any number of ways to measure how Amazon’s presence has reshaped Seattle," according to an article by David Gutman. "But here’s another one: Amazon’s summer interns — just the interns — can overwhelm bus routes in the city, causing King County Metro to send more buses to accommodate them."
Metro has added two additional buses to Route 70, "which runs between the University District and downtown via Amazon’s home in South Lake Union," according to Gutman, who runs many more of the numbers on the effects of Amazon's intern influx.
FULL STORY: The Amazon effect: Metro adds buses to handle new flock of summer interns
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