Tidbits and links! If you have any to suggest, or a photo to showcase on these posts, e-mail me at thebuzzer@translink.ca! I’m especially in need of good photos to showcase.

• We’ve released our data about traffic volumes on the Golden Ears Bridge during the first half of 2010. Looks like a teeny bit more people are crossing than we expected—$80,000 more came in than predicted.
• In Seattle, the King Street Station is restoring its historic ceiling! I can’t believe it got covered up in the 1960s.
• Vancouver apparently has the cheapest parking among the five big Canadian cities.
• I’m a bit late to this one, but here’s another post from Owen about a SkyTrain station that never was: Grandview Station.
• Many neat bus stop links emerged from the bus stop post two weeks ago: here’s a Flickr group of bus stops photos worldwide, a Gordon Price post about cool bus stops, and the details of Celine Rich’s 1996 Vancouver bus stop art project.
• The EnoTrans newsletter writes about the Canada Line.
• Jean Chong writes about cycling in Europe vs Vancouver, and especially about bikes on trains.
• David Byrne, musician and cyclist, describes his perfect city.
• Zow: B.C. gasoline consumption is up 10 per cent?
• The B.C. Electric Railway Transit board game! Thanks Jason Vanderhill!
• The New Westminster Public Library has a display about transportation history.
• Improv Everywhere continues its public transit performances: here’s Star Wars performed on the subway.
• This came up during the Vancouver Is Awesome transit giveaway: a story about a man with a bird on a bus.
• Last week was the 20th anniversary of the Blue Line in Los Angeles! Here’s a series of videos showing the Ninja Turtles on the Blue Line in the 1990s.
• Fixing the Red Line in Washington D.C.
• A fantastic New York Magazine article on the future of transit, focusing on bus rapid transit and bus-only lanes. (Here’s a followup from Good Magazine.)
• Toronto introduces Next Bus text message schedule updates for its streetcar service.
• And last but not least: Velibataire, hooking up single users of Paris’ bike sharing system :)