Sweet sassy molassy, there are way too many Olympic-slash-transportation links out there!

• Frances Bula has stats on how our ridership has doubled for the Olympic period.
• Inside Vancouver recommends 5 sightseeing tours on public transit. They also describe a Canada Line pub crawl!
• A correspondent from the Seattle Times has a good Olympic transit experience. Jack Knox from the Victoria Times-Colonist says the same, and so does Corey Burger. Frances Bula also had a tiny shoutout to transit in a recent blog post.
• Silver medallist Marianne St-Gelais was posed for photos with two fans in a Canada Line station.
• A fellow named Noam Dolgin has written up a little book called Canada Line Adventures! E-mail me, Noam! I’d love to talk to you about this too!
• Reps from the London 2012 games are shadowing our Transit Police.
• Did you know the government of Alberta has chartered the Whistler train for VIPs during the Games?
• Transportation analyst Jarrett Walker discusses our automated transit system.
• Videos: Oran Viriyincy catches our SkyTrain system during Olympic rush hour. Raphael Lam records his Olympic day (including transit) on February 17. tjrice captured cheerleaders on the SeaBus. Another crowd singing O Canada on a SkyTrain.
• Apparently the plane-stealing Barefoot Burglar is at the Olympics?
• One of our transit hosts got photographed holding a teddy bear! (A tourist is taking the bear on her Olympic trip and getting people to take photos with it.)
• Jack Becker at Third Wave Cycling muses about the Olympic spillover effect on walking, cycling, and transit.
• Also, someone from Torontoist is in town for the Games. Hi, Torontoist! I’m sure they’ll have some interesting things to say about the region :)
• Sidebar: here is the David Lam Cam, which gives you a real-time video feed of the LiveCity Yaletown lineups, so you can know before you go!
• A late addition: apparently the Olympic Line streetcar struck a Jeep yesterday. Eep!