City Hall has a message for Lyft: no more underage teens speeding through NYC streets on Citi Bike e-bikes. Officials are demanding age checks — and threatening to lock up thousands of bikes if the company refuses.

On Tuesday, August 12th, First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro sent a letter to Lyft CEO David Risher demanding “appropriate age verification steps”–like scanning a driver’s license or learner’s permit– to prevent riders under 16 years old from using Citi Bike’s electric bicycles; the minimum age allowed under the company’s terms of service.

“The dangers of underage use are compounded by these riders’ frequent failure to use proper safety equipment,” Mastro wrote, pointing to a recent Daily News op-ed from Bradley Tusk warning that helmetless teenagers on speedy e-bikes a

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