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)
Trucks illegally turning onto Ocean Parkway as a shortcut to the Prospect Expressway drive very fast through this intersection making it particularly dangerous for bicyclists coming on and off the bike lane for Ft Hamilton Parkway and Ocean Parkway S Access as well as for pedestrians.
Trucks illegally taking shortcut from Caton to the Prospect make this very dangerous for pedestirans
Where longer trucks illegally using Ocean Parkway as a shortcut get stuck. Solution: They shouldn't be there
Trucks taking the illegal shortcut from Caton Via CIA to the Prospect often further jam up the overloaded traffic Circle. During rush hour, emergency vehicles often can't get through, and the amount of gridlock, honking and exhaust makes it unbearable to be within a few blocks of from 3pm-6pm on most weekdays. The presence of large haul tractor trailers, which don't belong on this tight circle, greatly exacerbate it. Plus, the entrance to the Circle from NB Prospect Expressway traffic immediately after Church Avenue overload the Circle with traffic, leading to the biggest source of honking and exhaust, and where they enter at the traffic light is the apex of where trucks get stuck. There is already a speed camera on CIA, it should be used to also issue citations to trucks taking the unlawful shortcut.
Moving the crosswalk to the east side of the intersection at E7th and Ocean Parkway would create more visibility from drivers turning right from E7th Street, who cannot see oncoming traffic until they are in the trajectory, and also not paying attention to pedestrians in their blind spot to the right as they look for traffic on their left. Currently, big trucks illegally using Ocean Parkway (trucks are forbidden on Parkways in New York City) lean on their horn when seeing these drivers. It's a very dangerous intersection leading to a playground, a school, a church and a library, as well as steady foot traffic to the park which end up walking on the bike lane becauese it feels safer than crossing at that intersection.
There should be clear signage of "No Trucks" for turning right onto CIA north.
Trucks illegally take this turn as a short cut to the Prospect (instead of following the truck route to MacDonald and Ft. Hamilton Pkwy. A pedestrian island with bollards would make it safer for pedestrians, including by making it physically impossible for 18 wheelers to make the ilegal turn north onto CIA and then jamming the Circle.
Tractor trailers as large as 53' or double trailers (we see you FedEx) illegally take a shortcut from Caton Ave through Machate Circle into 10-50 block of Ocean Parkway to get to the Prospect. The Circle is already overtrafficked without semis gridlocking it, and Ocean Parkway is a PARKWAY, no truck traffic allowed. It's clear on the map it's not a truck route, yet the city refuses to enforce this, even when tractor trailers occsionally get stuck at the turn where Ocean Parkway meets Prospect Ave and Expressway. A pedestrian island on the north side of CIA and Caton would make it safer for pedestrians and block these rigs from cutting through.
Caton Avenue between East 18th Street and Ocean Avenue. We constantly have to watch out for trucks at the crosswalks. They try to come through quickly, due to the extreme traffic, they are apparently late a lot.
Caton Avenue between St. Paul's Place and Ocean Avenue. There is zero truck parking there even though it's a truck route. It's so bad that trucks often park on the sidewalk in front of the subway station house. There is no way this is a good truck route.
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