A Bicycle Built for All
Since 2006 I've been blogging on cars, bicycles and livable streets for the NYC-based Streetsblog. For a compilation of my 80-odd pieces on that site, go here. -- C.K., Feb. 2013.
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?).
The Bicycle Uprising, Komanoff's 5-part series posted on Streetsblog in August-September, 2012, recounting the activism that defeated the 1987 NYC Midtown Bike Ban and energized cycling advocacy from the late 1980s to the present. 6,000 words, includes vintage photos, posters and covers from Transportation Alternatives' "City Cyclist" newsletter.
New York City Bicycle Levels, Excel spreadsheet, newly updated, March 2013.
Model to Estimate Effect of Compulsory Helmet Laws on Cycling Risks, Excel spreadsheet, June 2012.
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"China's Bicycles Are Us" (unpublished) 2004 op-ed, on the removal of bicycles from China's cities.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)
Komanoff 1997 Staten Island
Advance op-ed, "New York Needs a Verrazano Bike Path"
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"
