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 (1878)
Comments (1878)
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.
I'm not sure if this is the result of poor truck route connections or poor signage or both, but trucks exiting the Prospect Expressway always turn east down Beverley Road even though it is not a truck route. I live on Beverley with my eight-year-old son just east of Ocean Parkway, and this is a residential street that is not wide enough for truck traffic. The constant truck traffic is noisy, and the pollution is harmful. It is supposed to be a sharrow, but the truck traffic makes biking on Beverley hazardous. Something needs to be done to keep trucks form turning down Beverley.
I cross through the intersections of Caton and Westminster every day with my stroller and young child. It is so stressful- the crosswalks are CONSTANTLY blocked by large trucks, and the truck drivers sometimes can't even see that you're trying to cross the road. I dread having to cross Caton.
Trucks speed on this street during drop off and dismissal of PS24
Grand Street bike lane is miserable! Please redesign this street to reduce danger.
Metropolitan is becoming more and more residential, with retail uses. If it's going to remain a truck route then it needs to be redesigned so that there is room for bike lanes and a more pedestrian-centric environment.
Trucks traveling northbound make illegal west bound left hand turns.
Trucks cutting Right hand turns heading towards 2nd short. You can see tire marks on the sidewalk. Children here have to step back and avoid trucks on the daily. Someone is going to get killed.
Why bother even having a traffic light here? Trucks behave as if it doesn't exist!
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