News roundup: smart thoughts

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With the cuts more or less done for now, its getting slooooow in the transitsphere:

• Another way to report badly parked bikeshares. If able bodied, you could just, you know, move it.
• ECB writes about the plight of the bus driver today.
• Seattle and Uber/Lyft reach a deal: not pushing unionization, but a minimum wage for drivers.
• Pierce Transit adds more rider limits per bus; essential employees can now dial a ride.
• Biketown is now way cheaper.
• Dan Bertolet has some smart thoughts about the pandemic.
• Also, Jarrett Walker on the same subject, at length.

This is an open thread.