Charles Komanoff

 

A Bicycle Built for All

Note: Many other pieces with bicycling content, including Komanoff's two declarations analyzing and condemning NYC's suppression of Critical Mass rides (2004), are collected on the next Web page (Cars I - Who Owns The Streets?).

New York City Bicycle Levels, Excel spreadsheet, April 2010.

In Defense of Ghost Bikes, Streetsblog, Jan. 2007

Letter to New Yorker Magazine, Nov. 2006.

Komanoff talk, "The Need for More Cyclists", 2005.

Komanoff op-ed, "City riding hard on cyclers' freedom", Newsday, 2005.

Komanoff op-ed, "Cops should ease up on the bike rides", NY Daily News, 2004.

"China's Bicycles Are Us" (unpublished) 2004 op-ed, on the removal of bicycles from China's cities.

Komanoff chapter, "Bicycling," in Encyclopedia of Energy (Elsevier) (PDF), 2004.

The Bicycle Blueprint -- A Plan to Bring the Bicycle into the Mainstream in New York City, 1993.

Pucher-Komanoff 1999 journal article, "Bicycling Renaissance in North America?"

Komanoff op-ed, "Yield to Bicycles", Downtown Express, 2001.

Komanoff 1999 essay, "Avenues for Activism: A Talk at the Start of BikeSummer"

Komanoff 1997 essay, Restoring Cycling Habitat, calling for "rights-based" cycling advocacy. This exploratory piece in Bicycle Forum was a precursor to Komanoff's 2004 Traffic Justice Prospectus.

Komanoff post-9/11 meditation, "River Road, Still Here"

KEA study for FHWA, "Environmental Benefits of Bicycling and Walking" (PDF)

Komanoff 2001 letter, "Safety in numbers? A new dimension to the bicycle helmet controversy" from Injury Prevention.

Komanoff 2001 letter in AMA Journal rebutting exaggerated claims on "drunken cycling" (PDF)

Transportation Alternatives: 1400 Strong And Growing, 1991 interview with Komanoff and T.A. staff during the final year of his presidency. An invigorating portrait of urban bicycle activism at its most radical, creative and effective.

Komanoff 1990 New York Times op-ed, Bikes Just Lack 'Curb Appeal'

Komanoff 1978 New York Times op-ed, Rights for Urban Bikers

Coming soon: Komanoff 1987 NY Observer op-ed, "The Bike Ban is Bad Medicine"

Coming soon: Komanoff 1997 Staten Island Advance op-ed, "New York Needs a Verrazano Bike Path"