The NYC Truck Route Network is a system of designated roads that helps commercial vehicles navigate the city efficiently. It aims to:
Connect primary freight origins and destinations.
Maximize access to industrial and commercial zones.
Minimize conflicts with residential areas and vulnerable road users.
This network is crucial for supporting the local economy and livability by:
Organizing neighborhood truck activity
Reducing traffic congestion on non-designated routes
Feedback Guidance:
We want to hear from you, help us identify how and where we can improve the movement of trucks on our city streets.
Options for feedback:
Confusing Truck Route Signage: A Unclear or inaccurate posted truck route signage
Missing Truck Route Signage: A lack of adequate signage to help guide trucks to and along designated truck routes.
Poor network connection: Areas with inadequate truck route network connectivity, often leading truck drivers to deviate from designated truck routes.
Weight & Height Restrictions: Overweight and/ or over-dimensional trucks are often observed.
Limited Curb Access: Trucks observed blocking moving, bike, or bus lanes; or have limited access to curbs for loading and unloading purposes.
Narrow Roadway: Limitations by the physical characteristics of the street, such as narrow roadway
Difficult Truck Turn: Limitations by the physical characteristics of the street, such as sharp turns
Maintenance Needed: Substandard road conditions, such as potholes, uneven surfaces, or lack of maintenance.
Limited Truck Parking: Shortage of designated parking spaces for trucks.
Observed Bicyclist and Truck Conflict: Observed locations where multiple incidents of bicycle and truck conflicts occurred
Observed Pedestrian and Truck Conflict: Observed locations where multiple incidents of pedestrian and truck conflicts occurred
Speeding Truck: Locations where trucks are observed speeding along the street or intersection
Health and Environmental Impact: Locations with air quality, general health, and environmental concerns
Comments (1876)
Comments (1876)
Difficult for cyclists. Visibility frequently blocked by parked trucks. Trucks speed on Laurel Hill Blvd. Confusing signage and signal.
Trucks turning right from Atlantic onto Court have little visibility and are often too large and turning much too fast. Deliveries are occuring at the same time children are walking to school in the morning.
Provost is a good cycling alternative to the Manhattan Ave and McGuinness Blvd death traps, but the shared lane puts cyclists into close proximity with trucks that expect to go fast here.
Loading and unloading trucks are constantly reducing this 2-way street to 1 lane.
Kingsland is a good north-south bike route but from Frost St to Meeker it becomes very narrow and there a bike lane gap. Lots of trucks use this road and there's no room for bikes. This significantly adds to the difficulty of getting from East Williamsburg to Greenpoint via bike. Morgan and Vandevoort are bad alternatives due to trucks. The next closest northbound bike lane is on Manhattan Ave., 1,800 feet away.
Trucks turning this corner both north and southbound are constantly blocking the crosswalk and intersection. It makes it difficult and dangerous for pedestrians to cross with constant beeping, shouting and insults thrown both ways. I have a child and crossing this street every day with a stroller is sometimes impossible.
Trucks unloading into the grocery store block traffic on Graham Ave, including northbound buses.
This is a very dangerous intersection for cyclists (not to mention pedestrians). Cyclists on the greenway from Prospect Park are supposed to cross to the bike path on the western side of Ocean Parkway to continue south, but this means crossing the entrance to the Prospect Expressway, where trucks are aggressively turning right, rushing to beat the light and get onto the expressway. It's very difficult for cyclists to get across fast enough, so for their own safety, many end up continuing south on the walking path on the east side of Ocean Parkway, which leads to conflicts with pedestrians.
Trucks have a lot of trouble making the turn from Chruch Avenue onto the Prospect Expressway. They frequently hit the bollard on the northeast corner and get stuck.
I've observed long trucks having great difficulty making the right turn from Coney Island Avenue onto Church Avenue. These trucks cannot make the turn from the right lane, so they make it from the left lane, endangering people in vehicles to their right. The front of the truck also often ends up going into the eastbound lane before the truck straightens out, which is dangerous to eastbound cars stopped at the light on Church Avenue.
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