Cars I - Who owns the streets?
Since mid-2006 I've been blogging on cars, bicycles and livable streets for the NYC-based Streetsblog. For a compilation of my two dozen pieces on that site, go here. -- C.K., July 2008.
Silence = Death on Greenwich Street op-ed on NYC DOT's inaction on vehicular endangerment of chidlren, seniors and other pedestrians
PowerPoint Slides of illustrations and aphorisms on automobility's intrinsic inequity. From a talk given at the New School, Dec. 10, 2007
Spreadsheet deriving mortality data for Komanoff May 30, 2007 Streetsblog post, The Burbs: Extremely Safe or Especially Dangerous?
Traffic Justice: A Prospectus -- manifesto to liberate the streets (Dec. 2004)
Killed By Automobile (PDF) -- Right Of Way's seminal analysis of car-violence in NYC (1999)
The Only Good Cyclist (PDF) -- RoW's 2000 sequel to "KBA," focusing on cycling fatalities
Komanoff 1st Declaration (PDF, Oct. 2004 precursor to Dec. 2004 declaration, above)
Komanoff 2001 op-ed, "Yet another helmet law? Let's skip it"
Komanoff 1997 essay (with Michael Smith), "Some deaths are more equal than others"
Komanoff 2000 essay, "Letters to the Times I didn't send" (PDF)
Komanoff 2000 op-ed, "Too Many Cyclists Are Dying"
Komanoff 1998 op-ed, "Pedestrians in Peril"
Komanoff 1997 op-ed, "Bikes Are Safe, It's Cars That Kill"
Komanoff 1997 op-ed, "Commemorating Gavin Cato"
Komanoff 1997 essay, "Criminal Negligence"
Komanoff 1997 essay, "For Rachel Fruchter"
Komanoff 1993 review of Wolfgang Sachs' book, "For Love of the Automobile"