Today’s Headlines

• Ride-Hail Giant Lyft Acquires Motivate and All of Its Bike-Share Systems (Bloomberg, News, Post)
• Cultivate Your Andy Byford Fandom With This Charming New Yorker Profile
• De Blasio Hasn’t Professed His Enthusiasm for Bus Lanes and Transit Signal Priority to Byford Yet (News)
• Something’s Rotten in the City Council Push to Undermine Waste Carting Reforms (Crain’s)
• TLC Proposes Wage Floor for App-Based Drivers, Gets Undercut By City Hall (News, Politico, NYT, Post)
• New MTA Trip-Planning App Now in Public Beta (News, AMNY, Gothamist)
• There’s Room to Improve MTA Bus Service for Disabled Riders (CL)
• Postal Service Yanks Placards From Ninth Street Post Office in Park Slope (Bklyn Paper)
• 7,000 People Have Signed a Petition Supporting Regular Driving Tests for Seniors (QNS)
• Let’s Not Design Streets for Bar Owners Who Want More Parking (QChron)

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