when trucks double park here, it gets very congested and tight, in a street that is already really busy. Why are there truck routes on Havemeyer and Roebling?

There is a truck route sign here on the corner of south 4th and Bedford, but it's kind of confusing to read/understand. Additionally, if you don't look all the way up, you can't see it. The way the sign is written, it is very misleading/confusing.

This is an extremely dangerous intersection. I once observed a big accident where a truck rammed into the front of a storefront right in this area. Trucks often try to make this light as to not get stuck in the intersection, but there's too much going on in this intersection for that to work (double bike line, multiple pedestrian crossings, bridge entrance, and multiple intersections).

I put this under the rubric of Speeding Trucks but it is much more than that. Caton Avenue is exclusively residential between McDonald Ave. and Ocean Parkway with, as others have noted, several schools and a public library nearby. Traffic is incessant and loud, and the confusion at the major point where Ft. Hamilton Pky, Caton Ave., and McDonald Avenue intersect historically has been dangerous, with trucks, cars, bicycles, and buses from several routes converging and attempting merges and turns. Ft. Hamilton Pky runs one way from E.5th to McDonald; Caton probably should be a one-way street as well. There is a dedicated bicycle lane on Ft. Hamilton; Caton does not need one. Above all, enforcement is key, to stop: (1) speeding, (2) vehicles running red lights, (3) vehicles operating in the bicycle lane(s), (4) illegal turns, (5) scooters and other motorized two-wheel vehicles operating illegally, including in the bicycle lane(s) (and on sidewalks), (6) gridlock, particularly at intersections with signals, among other things. This is a badly planned and managed stretch of roadway, and a poor choice for a truck route, especially given the way the Caton narrows to the east of Coney Island Avenue (also confusing, filled with children, and constantly choked with pedestrian, truck, bicycle, and bus traffic).

Trucks have difficulty turning block entire intersection

Trucks driving on this route don't yield to anyone. They endanger cyclists (I am one) every day since they are too high up to see us. No trucks should be allowed on Caton Avenue between McDonald and Linden Aves.

Semis are backed up all along Caton Avenue to Linden Avenue all day and well into the evening. The exhaust form these diesel trucks is horrendous, and the area is nearly 100% residential so the impact on humans and animals is high. The noise pollution from these enormous engines roaring through our neighborhood is equally disturbing. This route should not be open to trucks at all! Semis on our city streets and passing through the city to other destinations should be strictly curtailed.