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 (2128)
Comments (2128)
Trucks turning onto 4th ave from 9th street that approached via 3rd ave have a very hard time making this turn. It results in backups and confusion.
We have a no turning for commercial trucks on to 4th Pl from Smith sign. This is not enforced. Many trucks come from 5th St. onto 4th Pl. It is a massive cut through because it is one of the few roads that allow western movement across from Smith to Court.
Tractor trailers turn onto Clinton Street from Atlantic despite signs warning not to. Then they get stuck at the bend in the street.
60th and 3rd avenue is extraordinarily dangerous for all the families trying to cross. The trucks make it worse--they sometimes get so close to the sidewalk that families have to back away . It's very loud because of the Gowanus, so it's hard to get anyone's attention if someone is about to get hit. I have witnessed trucks take up space, thus causing a backup behind them (as people are going back and forth between the west and east sides of 60th and 3rd under the Gowanus---then those backed up people end up having to run the red light and almost hit people in the crosswalk. There should not be a truck route right in front of 4 schools!
5th Ave in Sunset Park, in the 50 and 40 blocks are horrendously clogged in the mornings. Trucks are double parked, buses are trying to get through, and cars are also trying to navigate it all. It's a mess. This is a terrible time for trucks to be making deliveries.
It is illegal to drive trucks 53' and bigger in NYC. The police need to enforce this rule. We need to get these trucks off our streets. It is not our responsibility to tolerate more air pollution, along with damage to our road infrastructure, for businesses that can't work out with hauling companies what the appropriate size truck needs to be.
This is the wild west of traffic law, apparently. No rules. Trucks blow through streetlights as if they're not even there.
Given the number of lanes of traffic converging here, this left hand turn onto flatbush in particular, is really difficult for many trucks. Causes issue with pedestrians in the crosswalk and with passenger vehicles.
Trucks have nowhere to load in, so they park along the very very narrow Hoyt Street, causing traffic and confusion.
massive congestion at this intersection, due in large part to busses making 15 point u-turns every 6 minutes.
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