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 huge trucks carrying new cars should not be on Merrick Boulevard
When traffic is clear (very heavy traffic during rush hours) huge 18 wheelers fly down the street to make the lights. It’s terrifying and very loud
Heavy diesel truck traffic spewing pollution every morning and night across the street from playground, sports fields, and near school.
Heavy truck traffic between a school, playground and field. I have witnessed several car accidents and a truck hitting a person in the last year at this location.
Pedestrian conflict here with comercial trucks coming through the light at Myrtle and Cypress and not watching for pedestrians crossing at the curb cutouts or for the farm stand.
I think Ridgewood residents (which includes lots of families and children) aren't using Highland Park as much as they could because it's a very difficult and pedestrian-hostile path to get there, and requires crossing a road with lots of trucks and a car ramp to the Jackie Robinson Expressway There aren't many green spaces in Ridgewood, so Highland Park is a really valuable resource but it's so unpleasant and dangerous to get to.
Large trucks often speed down Forest Avenue, a very narrow roadway in a residential neighborhood with lots of children. Not a designated truck route but trucks use it anyway - I assume on way to and from Maspeth industrial area.
Bad place for trucks to turn - the turn angles are sometimes very acute, there is low visibility due to the street angles and the overhead train line. Chaotic, dangerous intersection.
Pedestrian walk way without stop sign/light that intersects truck traffic coming with high speed prior to a large intersection and light. Poses serious risk for heavy foot traffic accessing grocery stores/pharmacy/pedestrian plaza (where summer farmers markets are held) on a regular basis
Cypress from Flushing to Myrtle is an unsafe truck route. This route passes heavy foot traffic between schools and local parks, and has narrow driving area with car parking on both sides, across the entire length of Cypress. This area is already served well by the routes to north and south of it, and I believe would be best removed.
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