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)
This is a no-truck street and trucks are constantly coming through. The road narrows at the end of the block and sometimes the bigger trucks have to back up all the way to Nassau. A fleet of FedEx trucks in particular speeds through every morning.
When trucks are carrying a container of smelly trash, it stinks especially bad at the intersection of Metro, Bushwick, and Orient. I don't know why. Maybe the wind.
Unprotected bike path on Union hurls cyclists into traffic as everyone rushes to cross Metropolitan as soon as the light changes.
There is a daycare right on Greenpoint Ave, which makes pick up and drop off extremely dangerous with toddlers running and trucks passing by very fast. Sidewalks are not set up to protect the pedestrians and the truck circulation is intense due to ongoing construction work on West st. and all the Walton TV/cinema trucks coming and going every single day. This is leading to very dangerous situations. Trucks must be re-routed to protect pedestrians, and specifically children.
Super confusing for cyclists heading east because bike lane is in the middle of the street and we have to compete with trucks and pedestrians to reach the intersection before the light changes.
I like the protected bike lane under the highway, but it is difficult for vehicles on Morgan to see deep into the area before making a turn. There are also no traffic lights under the BQE for cyclists to predict traffic going parallel to them.
Scary when the protected bike lane merges with the shared lane. Scooters, bikes, and trucks are in conflict between here and the Williamsburg Bridge.
Hot mess on Metropolitan between all the cars, trucks, pedestrians, and cyclists trying to pass the under BQE. There is the faintest suggestion that there is a shared bike lane on the north side of Metro that feels like a gamble on your life every time. We need physical separation and protection here for cyclists AND more corridors in lower traffic areas across the BQE, such as from Conselyea and Skillman.
The significant truck noise and danger to pedestrians on McGuinness reduces quality of life in Greenpoint. Please continue the redesign to get trucks just passing through out of the neighborhood
Trucks routinely barrel up Monitor Street between Nassau Ave & Driggs Ave in Greenpoint, despite there being a clear sign that says "No Truck Through Traffic" at the corner of Nassau Ave and Monitor Street. Trucks use it as a shortcut between the LIE and the entrance to the BQE, the addition of speed bumps and numerous requests from residents to the DOT has not resulted in any change. There is an elementary school at the end of the street, which is dangerous on its own (there was also recently a fatal accident on the corner of Driggs and Monitor) but the trucks that illegally drive up Monitor Street also rip down branches from the old trees that arch over the street, and tear up the streets that were not meant to support that much weight or vehicles of that height. The houses on the street are over 100 years old with wood foundations, and the vibration of the constant truck traffic is slowly destroying the integrity of these buildings, which mostly house working and middle class residents. There have been many suggestions for solutions to this problem by residents over the years, but the problem persists.
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