Editing San Luis Obispo, California (section)

==Transportation==
[[File:Bishops peak from the Coast Starlight.jpg|thumb|left|Amtrak's ''[[Coast Starlight]]'' passing in front of one of the [[Nine Sisters|Nine Morros]]]]
[[File:San Luis Obispo Airport Overhead.jpg|thumb|right|[[San Luis Obispo County Regional Airport|San Luis Obispo Regional Airport]]]]

[[San Luis Obispo County Regional Airport]] offers private air service and non-stop commercial air service to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Denver, and [[Phoenix, Arizona|Phoenix]], Dallas-Fort Worth, Las Vegas, and service to Portland and San Diego, beginning in 2020.

[[Amtrak]] provides daily rail transport service at [[San Luis Obispo station]] as the northern terminus of the [[Pacific Surfliner]] line from [[San Diego]] and [[Los Angeles Union Station]], and as a stop on the [[Coast Starlight]] line. The Amtrak train travels north to [[Salinas, California|Salinas]], [[San Jose, California|San Jose]], [[Oakland]], [[San Francisco]] (via [[Emeryville, California|Emeryville]]), [[Sacramento, California|Sacramento]], [[Portland, Oregon|Portland]], and [[Seattle]].

[[Amtrak Thruway]] [[Amtrak Thruway#18|18]] provides a daily connection to [[Visalia, California|Visalia]] on the east, and [[Santa Maria, California|Santa Maria]] on the west, with several stops in between.<ref>{{Cite web |title=ROUTE18 |url=https://amtraksanjoaquins.com/route18/ |access-date=25 June 2024 |website=Amtrak}}</ref>

[[Greyhound Lines|Greyhound]] closed its station building in San Luis Obispo on March 12, 2009; it still serves the city via a bus stop on Railroad Avenue. There are also multiple companies that provide shuttle services or black car service to/from the airport.

[[FlixBus]] boards from the San Luis Obispo Railroad Museum at 1940 Santa Barbara Avenue.

===Public transit===
[[File:San Luis Obispo Amtrak station.jpg|left|thumb|The [[San Luis Obispo station|San Luis Obispo train station]] is served by [[Amtrak]], with the [[Pacific Surfliner]] and [[Coast Starlight]] lines.]]

[[Public transit]] includes the citywide [[SLO Transit]] bus lines as well as the county-wide SLO Regional Transit system. Rideshare encourages the use of the local public transit, as well as [[carpooling]] and cycling. Riders for the SLO Transit system are now able to plan their trips using Google Transit.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://rideshare.org/cm/bus/Google%20Transit%20Trip%20Planner.html |title= San Luis Obispo Regional Rideshare|website=rideshare.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100323093810/http://rideshare.org/cm/bus/Google%20Transit%20Trip%20Planner.html |archive-date=March 23, 2010}}</ref> The SLO Car Free program provides an online one-stop-shop for all car-free vacationing needs from bus schedules and bike maps, to discounts on transportation, lodging, and attractions.

===Roads===
[[File:SLO Transit's New Bus.jpg|thumb|right|[[SLO Transit]] bus]]

[[U.S. Highway 101 in California|U.S. Route 101]] and [[California State Route 1]] are the major north–south highways in San Luis Obispo, linking the city to the rest of the Central Coast region, San Francisco to the north, and Los Angeles to the south. Both enter the city from the south as a [[concurrency (road)|concurrency]]. As they head north, Highway 1 then splits towards the coast to [[Morro Bay, California|Morro Bay]], while Highway 101 stays more inland to [[Atascadero, California|Atascadero]] and [[Paso Robles, California|Paso Robles]]. [[California State Route 227]] provides an alternate route to Highway 101 from San Luis Obispo south to [[Arroyo Grande, California|Arroyo Grande]].

===Cycling===
Bicycling is increasing as a mode of transportation. The Bill Roalman (Morro Street) Bicycle Boulevard, also called the Bill Roalman Greenway, gives priority to bicycle traffic while a special bicycle traffic signal (one of only a handful in the United States) allows bicyclists their own phase in traffic flow.<ref>{{cite web|last=Russell|first=Angel|title=SLO's plan for growing the greenbelt, carbon neutrality and a circular economy|url=https://www.kcbx.org/post/slos-plan-growing-greenbelt-carbon-neutrality-and-circular-economy|access-date=June 28, 2020|website=www.kcbx.org|date=June 26, 2020|language=en}}</ref> The SLO County Bicycle Coalition offers a free bicycle valet service during the weekly Farmers' Market. In 2007, the city was designated as a Bicycle Friendly Community at the Gold level by the [[League of American Bicyclists]].