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 (1730)
Comments (1730)
highway and trucks a concern because of gas, asthma
merging signs for bikes, when construction and truck presence blocks bike lanes
there should be a stop sign to yield for bikers and pedestrians on kent. should add a protected bike lane on S 4th st
I try to avoid this route because there is a lot of truck traffic, concerns when dropping off at the community school nearby, dangerous
speeding cars and trucks, put crossing guard (under overpass)
I play in this park and pollution is everywhere, please do something about it, trucks have to do with this
concerns with the higway and trucks in the BQE, too congested, roads are unsafe and not stable
West 16th Street between 6th & 7th Avenue has become a heavily used street that trucks use to crosstown starting from the westside to the eastside. It is a turnoff from the West Side Highway, Google Building, Chelsea Market, Dream Hotel, Maritime Hotel, Western Beef. Our block is a narrow residential block with legal parking on the North + South side of the street. There are signs posted on 7th Avenue & 16th street that say no trucks allowed down the block but in the 20+ years I've lived here that has been ignored. These trucks can easily use 14th Street to crosstown. It has caused major problems. With all the commercial businesses I mentioned there are private sanitation trucks that come barreling down the street all hours of the night. Not pleasant especially when they drive fast and go over the 2 speed bumps on our block. Very noisy. Often times cars are double parked which means the trucks can't get through due to how narrow the street is causing honking that's non-stop. Trucks should not be allowed down the street. We get enough traffic with just cars as Chelsea, Meatpacking, Highline area have become very popular with lots of foot traffic and tourists. Its dangerous and we have actually had one death with a truck.
There are parallel truck routes two and three blocks away. Traffic on Flatbush desperately needs to be tamed (or better yet, eliminated). I've seen cars, trucks and vans crash into sidewalks, which are busy with pedestrian traffic. It is a very dense residential and commercial area. In any rational world this stretch would be pedestrianized. To keep this as a truck route is insane.
Virtually every morning as I take my child to school on the back of my bike, there are trucks illegally blocking the eastbound lane of Parkside making it extremely dangerous to get to the protected bike lane a block away.
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