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The city needs even more of these kinds of protected bike lanes. Photo: Gersh Kuntzman

KOMANOFF: City Must Embrace Inspired RPA Plan for Bike Network

By Charles Komanoff | Jun 23, 2020 | No Comments

The Regional Plan Association’s new Five-Borough Bikeway report may be the most inspired New York City bike-related document to appear since Trans Alt’s 1993 Bicycle Blueprint.

Former NYC Traffic Commissioner Sam Schwartz. Photo: Courtesy NY Daily News

KOMANOFF: ‘Gridlock Sam’ Ups The Ante

By Charles Komanoff | May 1, 2020 | No Comments

You gotta hand it to “Gridlock” Sam Schwartz. Here's why.

KOMANOFF: It’s Earth Day — Let’s Celebrate NYC’s Cleaner Air

By Charles Komanoff | Apr 22, 2020 | No Comments

The distance we've come since the photo above is impressive, and we can credit Earth Day activism and government regulation.

The author warned Dear of his and his son's increased vulnerability from a helmet law.

KOMANOFF: Remembering Noach Dear, the Public Face of Indifference to Road Safety

By Charles Komanoff | Apr 21, 2020 | No Comments

Amid all the tributes to former City Council Member Noach Dear, our correspondent reflects on one area where the Brooklyn pol failed the city.

The NYPD's Collision Investigation Squad does not play a role in Vision Zero and should be taken away from the NYPD, argues this op-ed. File photo: Gersh Kuntzman

KOMANOFF: Disband NYPD’s Collision Investigation Squad

By Charles Komanoff | Apr 16, 2020 | No Comments

In this clarion call op-ed, Charles Komanoff argues that the NYPD's crash investigation unit needs to be replaced by civilians.

Photo: Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images via Wikimedia Commons

KOMANOFF: Coronavirus Will Go Away, Congestion Pricing Must Not

By Charles Komanoff | Apr 3, 2020 | No Comments

All four bedrock conditions that justified congestion pricing in the first place will almost certainly remain after COVID-19.

WJ Farr's map, which was posted to Twitter, shows you everything you need to know.

KOMANOFF: Where the Streets Have No Mayor

By Charles Komanoff | Mar 27, 2020 | No Comments

De Blasio’s failure to pedestrianize more than a few dozen blocks shows his true colors.

The mayor in his natural habitat: a taxpayer-funded SUV.

Komanoff: De Blasio — Even Now — Is MIA on Breaking the Car Culture

By Charles Komanoff | Mar 25, 2020 | No Comments

The mayor's actions and utterances show again and again that he lives inside a "windshield world."

KOMANOFF: Relinquishing Congestion Pricing Exemptions Fantasies

By Charles Komanoff | Mar 6, 2020 | No Comments

America's leading expert on congestion pricing weighs in on the whining of Manhattan drivers.

Carolyn Konheim, a leading fighter against Westway and for clean air, died last week at 81. This photo is from the mid-1980s.

IN MEMORIAM: ‘Do All The Good You Can’ — The Life of Urban Ecology Pioneer Carolyn Konheim

By Charles Komanoff | Dec 2, 2019 | No Comments

Carolyn Konheim, a leading fighter against Westway and for clean air, died last week at 81.

Matt Travis's friends left a memorial at the scene of his death. Photo: Charles Komanoff

KOMANOFF: Visit to Site of Matt Travis’s Death Invokes Sadness, Rage

By Charles Komanoff | Nov 18, 2019 | No Comments

I needed to know exactly how Matt Travis died.

Hultberg 5-photo array with caption _ 15 Sept 2019

Bowery Flowers — The Green Spark Behind NYC’s 1980s Bicycle Revival

By Charles Komanoff | Sep 16, 2019 | 18 Comments

Remembering Carl Hultberg, a great, unsung figure at the start of the livable streets movement.

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