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Posts by Charles Komanoff

• 2013

• May 21: Predictions of Bike-Share Carnage Are a Mirage and a Distraction 29
• May 03: Bike-Share in The Village: What Would Jane Jacobs Do? 71
• Apr 03: Fun Facts But Little Analysis in NYU Traffic-Injury Study 23
• Mar 12: Transparency Must Accompany NYPD Crash Investigation Reforms 9
• Feb 15: Lessons From London After 10 Years of the Congestion Charge 15
• Jan 16: Costs of Subway Slowdown Would Add Up Fast 23

• 2012

• Nov 12: Have the Days of Scapegoating the MTA Come to an End? 11
• Oct 22: Remembering Danny Lieberman, a Gentle Force for Better New York Cycling 27
• Oct 16: Teenagers’ Cars Are the Gifts That Keep on Wreaking Havoc 20
• Sep 28: Tonight’s Ride and Forum Are About Livable Streets for All 5
• Sep 26: Bicycle Uprising: Celebration Ride and Community Forum This Friday 3
• Sep 04: The Bicycle Uprising, Part 5 6
• Aug 28: The Bicycle Uprising, Part 4 11
• Aug 21: The Bicycle Uprising, Part 3 2
• Aug 14: The Bicycle Uprising, Part 2 9
• Aug 07: The Bicycle Uprising: Remembering the Midtown Bike Ban 25 Years Later 15
• Jun 25: Liu’s and Pucher’s Bike-Share Math Is Wrong, and Not By a Little 17
• Jun 06: A Compulsory Helmet Law Won’t Make NYC Cyclists Safer 49
• May 25: Undamaged Nature, Unbroken Autonomy: Richard Grossman, a Bicycle and Me 7
• May 16: Traffic Pricing Is Evolving. Can Its Opponents? 7
• May 03: Why Gridlock Sam’s Traffic Plan Could Go the Distance 16
• Apr 23: Twenty Years Later, Horrific Washington Square Park Crash Still Resonates 9
• Mar 26: The Greater Good of Bike Tolls 58
• Feb 06: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Wastefulness 19
• Jan 26: Cost of Tappan Zee Mega-Bridge Could Cause Tolls to Triple 16

• 2011

• Dec 12: Cuomo’s $320 Million Transit Cut Could Cost NYC Dearly 4
• Dec 05: Can the 99 Percent Movement Reinvigorate Congestion Pricing? 18
• Nov 08: At Last, a Times Critic Gets It: NYC Is Best Absorbed From a Bike 5
• Oct 13: New Tech Promises Less Subway Crowding, If Albany Doesn’t Beggar the MTA 6
• Sep 30: Why Is the Manhattan Institute Afraid of Livable Streets? 29
• Aug 01: Guess Who Has a Lot to Lose From an MTA Meltdown: Drivers 8
• Jul 15: Look Ma, No Windshield! 5
• Jun 09: What We Don’t Know About the Crash That Killed Aileen Chen 127
• Jan 25: Response to NYC Traffic Violence Rooted in Ignorance 48

• 2010

• Nov 15: In Memoriam: Ted Kheel, Transit Advocate and Visionary 10
• Nov 09: Post Reader to Cuozzo: Why Not Acknowledge That Streets Are Getting Safer? 8
• Sep 07: Framing the New Broadway: “Green Ribbon” or “Narrow Passageway”? 17
• Jul 29: This Week in NYC Transportation: More Pollution, Less Efficiency 4
• Jul 13: See a Pattern of Deadly Dump Trucks? Don’t Bother Federal Safety Officials 13
• Jun 09: “Black Box” Standard for New Cars Could Be Big Gain for Street Safety 47
• May 10: Transit Check: Most New Yorkers Take Green Modes to Work 3
• May 07: The Public Square After Times Square 14
• May 06: Biking in NYC Is Up… But How Much? 13
• Apr 22: Security Overkill Strikes Again 31
• Apr 13: Extreme Weather Wreaks Havoc on Palisades Bike Mecca 10
• Mar 18: In Any Language, the Cost of Congestion Comes Through Loud and Clear 11
• Jan 25: To Thwart Terror Trial Traffic Snarls, Curb Placard Abuse 6
• Jan 06: With Congestion Pricing, Saving Time Trumps Reducing Pollution 41

• 2009

• Dec 04: The Climate Pitfalls of Denmark’s Electric Car Parking Perk 22
• Nov 24: To Snap Drivers Awake, State DOT May Sacrifice Cyclist Safety 11
• Nov 19: City Council Parking Giveaway Will Bring More Gridlock 8
• Nov 12: Taxi Surcharges and Congestion Pricing — They Go Great Together 15
• Oct 22: Off-Peak Discounts for NYC Transit: An Intriguing Idea 24
• Oct 16: Wanted: Crowd-Sourced Transportation Analysis 12
• Oct 13: Paradox, Schmaradox. Congestion Pricing Works. 41
• Oct 02: More Than Just Same-Old at Upper East Side Bicycle Forum 11
• Sep 24: Packed House Applauds Bicycle Diarist Byrne and Friends 9
• Aug 18: Time-Polluting Daily News Honcho Goes Public 17
• Aug 04: Bloomberg Tests Free-Transit Waters 19
• May 07: Albany’s Choice… or Ours 5
• Apr 16: Needed: A Better Way to Sweeten the Ravitch Plan 25
• Mar 27: Whither the MTA: Beyond the Failed Stopgap 14
• Mar 10: Beyond Ravitch: Still Time for a Bolder Plan 25

• 2008

• Dec 19: Congestion Pricing vs. Ravitch Plan: Which is Better for the Boroughs? 26
• Nov 14: Post Reader Defends “Dangerous” Bike Lane 8
• Jul 03: High Gas Prices Won’t Cure Gridlock 19
• Jun 02: “Kheel Plan II” to Revive Free Transit Proposal for ’09 Races 26
• Apr 14: Bridge and Tunnel Traffic Drop Tied to Toll Increase 30
• Apr 03: Queens Pricing Opponent Is Right: $8 Is Crazy 23
• Jan 07: Ghost Bikes Memorial Ride Marks Another Year of Loss 3
• Jan 04: Greenway Killer is Sentenced 3½ to 10½ Years 9

• 2007

• Dec 21: January 3rd: The Wrongdoer is Brought to Justice 12
• Dec 20: The One Carbon Tax That Couldn’t 13
• Sep 20: Delucchi Study Finds That U.S. Motorists Do Not Pay Their Way 23
• Jul 27: The Weekly Carnage 1
• Jul 20: The Weekly Carnage 3
• Jul 13: The Weekly Carnage 2
• Jul 06: The Weekly Carnage 6
• May 30: The ‘Burbs: Extremely Safe or Especially Dangerous? 12
• Mar 21: When Traffic Enforcement Doesn’t Include Moving Violations 11
• Feb 23: The Times Applauds Cycling… The Times of London, That Is. 7
• Feb 12: Crack Down on Drivers, Not iPods 13
• Jan 11: Public Health and Livable Streets: Making the Connection 5
• Jan 09: In Defense of Ghost Bikes 23

• 2006

• Nov 22: Fresh Direct Builds a Grocery Empire on Free Street Space 38
• Nov 16: NYPD Has Spent $1.32M to Suppress a Monthly Bike Ride 18
• Nov 14: “Freak Accident” That Seems to be Happening Regularly 2
• Nov 09: DOT to Neighborhood: Your School’s in the Way of Our Highway 7
• Nov 07: Scrimp My Ride 3
• Sep 18: Pirro: Why Not Make Reckless Driving into Your Issue? 4