So, May is the National Bicycle Month. If you've been considering biking to work, or even to the grocery store or the gym, now's the time to start. There's the standard blah-blah-blah: healthy, good for the environment, fun--but what you're really thinking about is that you heard gas prices were going to hit $4 this summer. Even the Wall Street Journal is getting into the spirit, according to Triple Pundit, who provides a tidy summary of a recent glowing WSJ piece on bicycling. (You'll want to notice the "to be sure" moment when TP notes how many commuters in Amsterdam and Copenhagen cycle to work.) And Grist has some excerpts, and Biking Bis runs down some of the programs that Amsterdan and Copenhagen use to promote cycling. And back to Grist again: bike commuters are the happiest commuters (this is probably more a result of people choosing to bike rather than other modes, but still).
Biking Bis also points to a federal bill promoting bicycle commuting and how you can help support it.
Meanwhile, talking about bicycle sharing and pooled systems, Richard Layman points to the bicycles page of London's transportation agency, Transport for London, which sure is a beauty.
ALSO: On the other end of the transportation scale, why not a high-speed rail system for the midwest?