• Car-sharing went up a staggering 117% between 2007 and 2009. According to analysts, a person who drives 12,000 miles a year can save $1,834 annually by forsaking his or her own vehicle and shifting to a car-sharing service. (Treehugger)

• Is it ironic or just sad that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality thinks that tightening emissions standards is “arbitrary, unnecessary and unachievable”? (NYTimes)

• A fashion photographer, a writer, a former mayor, and the chair of London Food share their visions of London in 2030. One imagines compulsory cycling, and lots of white ghost-bicycles. (Guardian)

• New York unveiled “Active Design Guidelines,” an overlay to the livability initiatives of several departments that aims to “promote physical activity and health through design.” (Urban Omnibus)

• “If Texas had had its act together,” said Ray LaHood, “It would have gotten some high-speed rail money.” Zing! (Houston Chronicle)

• A writer at GOOD gives a guided tour of what it’s like to turn a city street into a bicycle corridor. (GOOD)

• And not to be an alarmist, but as it turns out, every hour spent driving takes 20 minutes off your life expectancy. (This is a terribly convoluted way of thinking about things.) (MSN)