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 (1992)
Comments (1992)
Inadequate curb access on this block and side streets causes deliveries to block traffic causing traffic to divert into bus lane
Narrow two lane truck route. Citibike station is difficult to access without backing bike into passing trucks. Cyclists arriving via Argyle and Rugby lanes risk their lives squeezing between parked cars and trucks. Either remove parking and/or restrict trucks.
This road runs between athletic fields heavily used by families who park on the residential streets south of the Parade Ground and walk up across Caton. There is no crosswalk here and trucks frequently block the intersection at Argyle, leaving families and kids to navigate the trucks and cyclists squeezing through who have arrived via the Argyle and Rugby bike lanes. Not an appropriate place for trucks to be routed.
This is a very narrow road that has several bike lanes filtering into it. Bikes are left without a lane squeezing in between trucks that often block the intersections. The truck route runs between a heavily used athletics park and a residential area. It is a very dangerous stretch for children, pedestrians and bike riders to navigate. Cyclists are frequently forced onto the sidewalks to avoid being crushed by trucks. Additionally, the roads are severaly damaged to the trucks making it even more dangerous as cyclists are avoiding warped pavement, pedestrians navigating blocked intersections and huge trucks. Not an appropriate place for a truck route.
While Caton Ave is a natural connection to Linden Blvd for trucks, Church Ave has much better width and much less pedestrian/child traffic. Trucks just don't make sense on what is clearly a predominantly residential stretch of Caton Ave. It makes sense to restrict trucks to Church ave between MacDonald and ocean Ave, maybe even to Flatbush Ave.
the road is very bumpy and needs to be fixed.
trucks have a difficult time making the right turn off the prospect expressway at 19th St on to 10th ave.
trucks have a very difficult time turning right from Mcdonald Ave to Terrace Place. They need to swing wide and still end up on the other side of Terrace Place before they complete the turn.
Trucks often speed through the intersection here to catch the light. This happens often during rush hour traffic which is also when children are crossing here to get to the elementary school on the corner. A child I care for was nearly hit by a truck driver speeding to make the green light as we crossed after school once. Truck drivers also honk excessively here when they get stuck in the traffic here that is a disruption to the school and library across the street.
Trucks regularly ignore stop sign at this intersection where many pedestrians, especially children, cross to go to nearby school & playground. Cabs of large cargo trucks are too high for drivers to see children crossing in front of them because the height of the children doesn’t clear the top of the truck cabs. There have been many near misses here with trucks nearly hitting children.
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