Tidbits and links! If you have any to suggest, or a photo to showcase on these posts, e-mail me at thebuzzer@translink.ca!

• Some TransLink news from the past weeks: we released our first quarter financial results, and Coast Mountain Bus Company is reducing vehicle idling as much as possible.
• The Dunsmuir bike lane has opened! Gordon Price has a blog post and here’s an article from the Globe and Mail.
• The London Underground has discovered hidden 1950s posters in a disused area of Notting Hill Tube Station!
• Redesigning the Moscow Metro map.
• Keanu Reeves was spotted riding the New York subway! Photos: 1, 2, 3.
• San Francisco’s TransLink smartcard has now been renamed the Clipper Card.
• Hear the voices behind the Tube announcements! (Related: here’s the voice of our SkyTrain system!)
• L.A. Metro’s library has a blog post about the Washington transit system putting out a ton of transit data for developers to play with.
• Here’s a photo contest from Youth For Public Transport, the youth wing of UITP.
• Whoa! The idea of driverless trains has been raised for the Tube in London.
• Jarrett at Human Transit has a last post about streetcars forming a city transit network.
• David Lam has posted photos of the first Nova hybrid wrapped in ads! Pics: 1, 2, 3, 4.
• I’m bit late to the party on this one, but cycling researchers from UBC have released preliminary results about cycling injuries in Vancouver and Toronto. Streetcar tracks were responsible for 1/3 of the cycling injuries in Toronto; many Vancouver cyclists had run-ins with cars. Here’s a Globe and Mail article with more.
• Spotted: a face on our fare zone map!
• In the U.S., there’s a clash between agencies over federal transit funding.
• And since we talked a bit about high speed rail last week: a study suggests that high speed rail will spur growth in hub cities.