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)
There are multiple schools in the area and a school directly on this block. The signage needs to be updated to show it is a school zone and trucks need to lower their speed. there is also not sufficient space for the trucks to make the turn onto 39th street from 4th and other avenues.
Seen multiple trucks here trying to turn and causing traffic jams for at least half an hour or more.
There is a school on this block, but there is not signage requiring a lower speed limit. It's also a truck route and we often see trucks speeding down the block, making it unsafe. In addition, the cross walk light at 39th and 5th has been knocked down multiple times this year.
Trucks don't have enough room to turn from 5th onto 39th Street and as a result, many have knocked down the cross walk. There is a school on 39th Street, another one at 38th, and a third at 40th, meaning many children and their families cross here, but it's not a safe crosswalk.
Trucks coming off the BQE drive up this street even though it's not a designated truck route. There is a school but there's very little signage. There is not adequate space for trucks to turn onto 5th Ave, causing a lot of traffic to backup.
Union St is used as an active truck route, even though it is not designated as such, by loud, speeding construction trucks (cement mixers are a constant presence). These trucks create back-up on a busy, narrow residential street and produce dangerous traffic conditions for pedestrians.
Frequent sightings of illegal 53-foot trucks in this area (and throughout Bushwick). These trucks sometimes get stuck trying to turn onto Flushing Ave from Morgan Ave. As far as I can tell there is no enforcement of the 53-foot truck surface road restriction.
More signs and speed bumps on 1st street between 4th & 5th avenues
inadequate loading zones cause regular 53' trailer deliveries to CVS to block bike lane.
inadequate use of loading/waiting areas within navy yard causes trucks to mount curb and park half in the bike lane to wait for access to navy yard. inadequate street furniture/tree plantings/bollards fail to separate traffic types.
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