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)
The trucks are not looking out for pedestrians. I witnessed a truck almost hitting a pedestrian. There are too many trucks, entering and turning into the crosswalk. Dangerous area to walk and cross.
Where are trucks supposed to go after the truck routes end over here? What about the trucks that head to the Home Depot further down the street?
The trucks drive at high speeds past our small, residential street. They often race to get through the yellows, which makes it dangerous to cross the street.
Have observed a truck nearly run the light here. There's no bus lane, but buses and trucks compete for space on the narrow road. There's constantly kids crossing the street to get to the park and elementary school one to two blocks away. It's a small, residential stretch here, with no businesses, but there's 18-wheelers speed through. It feels like pedestrians are not prepared for the trucks here, given how small and quiet the street is otherwise.
Very busy and dangerous intersections for pedestrians, there are always speeding and loud trucks. There are a lot of bikers, family with kids and dogs around our neighborhood. Its speed and the sound always freak my dogs out and they could not walk on that street while there are trucks around during the day, we have to reroute and walk other streets, but unfortunately our building only have entrance on Metropolitan ave so there's no-way around.
West End Avenue has some signage (very, very small) identifying this street as a "private cars only" street. But trucks can be seen traveling for blocks and blocks, most often speeding in a neighborhood with many families with children in strollers and many elderly people who may not be able to get out of the way of a red-light running and speeding truck. These trucks are not turning at the next available street to exit as is required for delivery vehicles. We need cameras to document and then give automatic tickets to these illegal trucks.
Metropolitan Ave is more residential. So the bike lane on Grand should move to Metropolitan and the Metropolitan truck route should move to Grand where more businesses are. The trucks are heading to the Williamsburg bridge so Metropolitan Ave doesn’t make sense but Grand does. Therefore, if this changes, it would likely ease traffic as well
Water Street is very narrow and west of Main, the Trucks block the sidewalk to deliver to or pick up from Empire Stores
Weekday mornings there is a high volume of large speeding trucks on 43rd Avenue. Queens Blvd is one block South and is a designated truck route. Truck traffic needs to be directed to Queens Blvd. which is commercial and has enough lanes to accommodate the truck traffic.
Thirty Ninth Street is narrowest on this block, trucks are in conflict with bicycles, it is not possible to bike this block safely to the bike lane on 43rd Ave.
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