Zipcar’s demise means people such as me are back in the slow lane – and stuck needing their own costly car Phineas Finn

The Guardian - The impending collapse of UK carsharing is an embarrassment for a government attempting to curb the dominance of carsZipcar, the worldmp;#146;s largest carsharing club, is leaving the UK. The company, which operates about 3,000 shared vehicles in Britain, has announced plans to shutter its UK operations at the end of the month. The news comes as a bitter blow to the hundreds of thousands of Britons who regularly rely on carsharing, and is a major setback in efforts to reduce emiss