News Roundup: Long Distance

• Amtrak looking at ditching sleeper cars for long-distance routes, adding more service for short-haul intercity trips
• Eastgate Ride2 shuttles have a new operator and a new look
• Metro's Westlake customer service window will close
• Time to vote for neighborhood street funds
• Lime pivoting to scooters where allowed by law. In Seattle, expect an all-electric fleet of e-bikes by next month
• Local Green New Deals are a good idea
• Why voters don't buy the case for more housing
• Apparently some of those voters live in Edmonds
• Brutal take-down of the state of US transit infrastructure construction. A slightly less pessimistic take here.
• Trump wants CA's HSR money back
• I-405 / SR-167 Carpool & toll lane flyover now open in Renton
• Proposed $738M King County Parks levy would, among other things, fund a lot of bike infrastructure
• "Imagine Greater Downtown" wants your feedback on" a greater downtown
• Heidi Groover, now on the Times' Metro beat, explains the upcoming service changes
• A new bus-only lane on Cherry Street, part of the interim path for West Seattle routes, opened yesterday

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