Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Charles Komanoff

NYPD Has Spent $1.32M to Suppress a Monthly Bike Ride

By Charles Komanoff | Nov 16, 2006 | 18 Comments

Charles Komanoff, flanked by Marquez Claxton and Norman Siegel, at City Hall this morning. Time’s Up took its campaign for safe bicycling into the economic arena this morning with release of a report documenting the Bloomberg administration’s squandering of New Yorkers’ tax dollars in suppressing the Critical Mass bike rides. With the City Hall steps […]

Pricing for Sustainability

By Aaron Donovan | Oct 2, 2006 | 6 Comments

In his weekly radio address yesterday, Mayor Bloomberg discussed some steps his administration is taking toward a sustainable future, including the creation of an Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability, and a Sustainability Advisory Board, which held its first meeting last week. Long-term sustainability is of course right up Streetsblog’s alley. Correspondent Charles Komanoff donned his […]

Digging in: How Many Crashes Are Due to “Bicycle Factors?”

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 14, 2006 | 5 Comments

Charles Komanoff at Right of Way has churned out an initial analysis of the City’s bicycle injury and fatality study. Here is his take: New York City just released its first-ever study of bicycle injuries and fatalities. There’s good news and bad news. The good news is that four City agencies (health, transportation, parks and […]

An American Carwolf in London

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 11, 2006 | 1 Comment

Economist Charles Komanoff points Streetsblog to a news brief from London where Mayor Ken Livingstone insists that the U.S. Embassy owes a whopping $1.6 million in unpaid congestion charging fees: Embassy employees have not paid the charges £8 ($15) a day for any car entering central London, since July 2005, arguing that the charge is […]

Inebriated Columnist Issues Fatwa Against Kamikaze Jerks

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 27, 2006 | 16 Comments

Last week, columnist Steve Dunleavy used his 400-word rant-space in the New York Post to urge the city’s cab riders and motorists to throw open their car doors in front of "pedal punks" riding their "maiming machines," and, "take back the streets" from bike-commuting "kamikaze jerks." City cyclists, already feeling vulnerable after a month of […]

Charles Komanoff’s “Fuel Tax Magic”

By Aaron Naparstek | Jun 28, 2006 | No Comments

New York City economist and activist Charles Komanoff has been focused lately on developing and promoting the idea of a "carbon tax." Carbon taxes are still still very much considered fringe economic theory and politically unviable, though, as you read Komanoff’s latest essay in Grist, you have to wonder how long that will last. The […]