News roundup: not very important

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• Alex Pedersen sits down with Seattle Bike Blog.
• Derailment Amtrak engineer now suing them ($).
• A report on RapidRide J (Eastlake) with bike lanes. Meetings underway!
• A new county mobility framework sounds like a snooze but could result in big changes down the road.
• The USS renaming kerfuffle is not very important, but also was not well run.
• TriMet breaks ground on a BRT line.
• Lots of nationwide transit openings in 2020.
• Virginia has big passenger rail plan ($).
• A CAHSR audit.

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