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 (1911)
Comments (1911)
These curbs need to be better maintained and the cobblestones need to be smoothed over better. There are a lot of strollers that navigate these areas, and the potholes and bad curbs make it harder to navigate when there's traffic and no crosswalks.
Not necessarily trucks but buses make a turn here and there needs to be proper signage for where bus routes are. Cars parked on the curb or taking up space on Van Brunt interfere with buses being able to make their turns and get people to their destination. Red Hook is very dependent on buses to get to where subways and other areas of Brooklyn, so the traffic being as it is does not help with people trying to get to work or school.
Trucks are always speeding up and down this road at all hours -and very much so in the middle of the night that they cause a ruckus when people are trying to sleep. It is unsafe and the roads aren't that wide to support having multiple trucks there. This part of Van Brunt is better suited for residents and smaller vehicles to support the local businesses there.
Every so often a large truck or one that carries a bunch of cars gets stuck in this intersection, and they hold up traffic across all ways. They also are at risk for hitting all the cars parked there.
Trucks constantly speed and blow the lights at both Sullivan and Wolcott streets on Van Brunt so that they don’t have to do too much start/stop. There is an ELEMENTARY SCHOOL on Van Brunt between Sullivan and Wolcott, as well as significant pedestrian traffic. It is absurd that Van Brunt St is allowed to be used as a truck route.
My car was sliced open by a truck trying to turn North onto Van Brunt St off of Walcott St. The NYPD agreed that I was parked completely legally and all they had to say was “don’t park on the corners in Red Hook”. That is ludicrous. Van Brunt St is a critical street in the neighborhood and having it dominated by dangerous trucks is something that the government needs to fix NOW.
There is a sign on this block that indicates that trucks are not allowed on this block (except local deliveries). I regularly observe excess amounts of speeding trucks on our block, as well as every garbage truck using this block as an entry point to access all neighborhoods, from early morning to late afternoon. It's almost like a parade of traffic, and that includes mack trucks and garbage trucks.
Trucks are not allowed on this block, there are at least 50-100 that pass by daily at all hours of the day. Huge semi-trucks carrying very large loads.
High level of truck traffic, always speeding, shakes foundation of houses
Trucks park in the bus stop. Forces buses to stop in the middle of the road. This blocks traffic and prevents people from exiting and boarding the bus.
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