TN MOVING STORIES: Transpo News Links from Around the Web

ON TN:

Rideshare Companies, Drivers Opposed to New Rule (link)

Ebola on the Subway? FAQ (link)

MTA Expands Wireless Service to 40 More Stations (link)

FRIDAY LINKS:

Chicago wants transit riders to pay fares with smartphones. (Gov Tech)

Strike averted: Golden Gate buses will be running today after a tentative labor deal was reached. (SF Gate)

Light rail ridership is up in Houston, but bus ridership is down. (Houston Public Media)

Why an Ebola-themed travel ban wouldn't work: it would choke off aid and make it harder to track potential Ebola cases. (Politico)

Meanwhile, a Texas health-care worker who “may have” handled lab specimens from an Ebola victim has been isolated in a cabin on board a commercial cruise ship. (WaPo)

And meanwhile meanwhile: an Ebola scare shut down a Boston transit station after a woman was sick on the platform. “Someone made the assumption she was from Liberia, and she had Ebola. She never stated any of that,” he said, adding that the woman is actually of Haitian descent. (Boston Magazine)

A Chinese court gave a former senior railway official a de facto life sentence for taking nearly $8 million in bribes. (WSJ)

A group is campaigning for a bike/pedestrian lane over the Verrazano Bridge -- as well as a 'Harbor Ring' route that circumnavigates three boroughs and New Jersey. (NYT)

Meet D.C.'s bike whisperer. "I Googled around and was able to track him down and sent an e-mail asking, ‘Are you the mythical Smiley of whom they speak who does bike fits off Beach Drive?’" (WaPo)