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.

• The video above is from Transport for London in the UK, kicking off a new video series to encourage cycling. The backing track is a new one from Mark Ronson called The Bike Song! Oh London, so hip.
• CMBC’s anti-idling policy has paid off: there’s been an idling reduction of 36.4% over the year. Well done!
• Also, the Golden Ears Bridge shows a steady increase in traffic in its second quarter report.
• A neat student-made ad display at the Jugo Juice in Vancouver City Centre station.
• Is this for real? Time Magazine reports a Chinese traffic jam apparently entered its NINTH DAY on Tuesday.
• Matthew passed along links to BC Transport Action, which discusses and advocates for transportation issues in B.C. Two interesting articles include a trolley bus network diagram, and a map of Metro Vancouver rail transit! They also have a blog.
• Rachel Albang, who you might remember from I Love Transit Week, now has a song about buses up!
• Ernest also passed along this BC Transit history website.
• Video and presentation materials from Jarrett Walker’s Field Guide to Transit Debates talk over at Human Transit and Portland Transport.
• Did you know that London used to have a secret underground post office railway? They kept the Rosetta Stone in there during World War II.
• Super neat: animated movement map of all San Francisco buses in June 2010 (thanks Scott!)
• The Source, L.A. Metro’s blog, has a great series called Why I Ride, profiling Metro staff who ride transit. Also, here’s an AP article about how Los Angeles is pushing to become the U.S.’s transit leader.
• Metrolinx is going to build and run the Toronto airport train link, after a P3 deal with SNC-Lavalin fell through.
• The Vancouver Public Space Network will be turning parking spaces into park space on PARK(ing) Day, September 17.
• Frequent transit network (FTN) news: in Montreal, STM has launched a branded FTN network, with 31 routes operating every 10 min or better, from 6am to 9pm daily. (Of those 31 routes, only 11 are truly at this service level. The other 20 have 10min service in the peak direction only.) Toronto is also proposing a branded FTN network.
• An editorial in the Victoria Times-Colonist says bus drivers are the best drivers.
• Video of Dawn Chubai doing her morning broadcast from the SeaBus.
• Also from L.A.: a super interesting post about paradigm shifts in transportation.
• Winnipeg notes: they’re building an LRT! But they’re having a bit of trouble restoring a classic streetcar.
• In case you haven’t seen this yet: Frances Bula compares the Seattle LRT to the Canada Line, one year on.
• Hmmm… Bellevue sticks with light rail path opposed by Sound Transit.
• The smart card topic is really hopping in Toronto. The TTC is apparently moving to wave card payment, and here’s a smartcard editorial from the Toronto Star. Oh, also, apparently the new TTC building has 14,000+ square feet for a transit museum!
• Guelph may overhaul its system and move to 15-minute and 30-minute service levels. Hamilton is looking at putting in LRT.
• Gordon Price weighs in on the Hornby bike lane debate (as you’ll recall, the Buzzer had a long thread about that!)
• And finally: here’s a really nice post about the Buzzer blog!