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 (1727)
Comments (1727)
There are frequently trucks speeding down Pioneer street, DESPITE the fact that there is explicitly a "no trucks allowed" sign on Van brunt. It's a narrow street with a lot of pedestrians, bikes, and children. These trucks are a collision hazard and an environmental health concern.
Trucks and delivery vans crowd Van Brunt and make it difficult to cross the street safely.
I have observed Semi-trucks getting stuck here while turning onto Van Brunt.
Van Brunt is the only street for the entire neighborhood to shop, buy groceries, eat at a restaurant etc. It's a 20+min walk to the next commercial area on the other side of the BQE. The number of trucks and delivery vans driving down Van Brunt create huge amounts of sound and air pollution, traffic and physical risk to all pedestrians. This is even worse when a cruise ship is in port and the neighborhood is inundated with vehicles.
Pioneer St has a single "No Trucks Except for local delivery" sign at the intersection with Van Brunt. One sign is clearly insufficient because multiple times a day trucks of all shapes and sizes drive down the street without making a delivery. This is a old residential block with apartments at street level.
Trucks speed through this increasingly dense residential area. Several high density buildings have recently been built off of Metropolitan, which will only make this worse as thousands more residents move to this neighborhood Metropolitan Av is no longer an industrial thruway- it’s a vibrant community with families and kids and the trucks maps should reflect that
Trucks constantly use this residential one way block to access Atlantic Terminal Mall loading docks. Trucks shiijd only be allowed to enter from Atlantic Avenue. The traffic and danger created to residents, children, pets and pedestrians by the trucks of all sizes (especially semi trailers using this block to gain access is surely an accident waiting to happen, as well as illegal as it is not part of the designated truck route.
The reduced lane on BQE has turned Columbia Street into a dead stop parking lot, with 18 wheelers honking day and night in a residential area. Truck drivers completely disregard lights, small children, pedestrians, and everyone else. It’s created an insanely dangerous situation with kids walking to school through truck clogged intersections. Clearly the DOT is valuing trucks over lives. It’s very very bad on a daily basis and peolple have been hit, cars demolished and property crushed. Transfer freight to a waterborne system and get the 18 wheelers off Columbia Street.
The signage saying Union is truck restricted is inadequate and has been ignored at least for the past 15 years. There should be a large electronic sign saying Vehicles over 1.5 tons must exit on 4th Ave and use Flatbush. Local deliveries excepted. In addition DOT should coordinate with the NYPD to enforce this. At first, keep an empty police car with lights flashing at 4th and Uniion until the new traffic pattern has been well established. Then move to large traditional signage. This should have been done when the regulation was put in place. No enforcement, no compliance.
Cyclists coming off the bridge are essentially invisible to downhill trucks who often "push it" at the end of each light cycle
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