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garbage trucks, poor timing and huge inconvenience
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
garbage trucks, poor timing and huge inconvenience
I just experienced an 18 wheeler on a residential cobblestone Street, making a delivery to a residential garage. It’s parked at the corner and nobody can get by. It’s been there for half an hour.
There is no location in NYC for the parking of large trucks. Webster Avenue from the City Line to Gunhill Road is often used as a layover area for large trucks. Please coordinate with Federal rules for truck drivers to define areas that can be used as truck layover areas. Hunts Point, Maspeth, and areas in Brooklyn need a large area to layover trucks. Some coordination with the NYS Thruway Authority and the NJ DOT to help plan and provide signage for these layover areas.
This is a no truck route yet trucks use this street on a daily basis and NYPD refuse to ticket the trucks. Hundreds of complaints have been filed over the years but nothing has been done about it. Large trucks including semi-trucks speed down this street.
Van Brunt is the main street of a residential neighborhood! The volume of dangerous speeding trucks in this neighborhood is completely out of control!
INCREDIBLY DANGEROUS TO HAVE VAN BRUNT AS A TRUCK ROUTE. THIS IS THE MAIN ROAD THROUGH A BUSY RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD. THIS SHOULD NOT BE A TRUCK ROUTE IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM!
not safe for walking pedestrians
we were counting all the trucks, heat is higher in the streets with the trucks, and we have health concerns
highway and trucks a concern because of gas, asthma
merging signs for bikes, when construction and truck presence blocks bike lanes
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