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)
Speeding trucks that share a street with families trying to use the bike lanes. I have personally witnessed a crash with a cyclist. No more 16-wheelers on Caton Ave
The pedestrians and residents on the stretch btwn E. 3/4th on Caton are in serious danger each and every time they try to cross a street, get to school, go to the library, go to the subway, go to the parade grounds, etc. These are all the actions which people should not be consistently afraid to do because of the speed and carelessness of truck drivers. Caton Avenue was not designed with the intent of 18-wheel trucks honking, speeding and driving alongside bikers, walkers, runners and people trying to go about their daily routine. This situation must change.
The speed, weigh and pollution of these trucks is frightening. We live on Caton btwn 3rd/4th and are woken up by 18 wheelers passing by at a speeding pace in order to make the light. The traffic is consistently loud with speeding of all types, horns and blaring engines. This is a residential street that houses many young children as well as older adults with mobility issues. Surely there is a better solution?
18-wheel trucks go barreling down Caton Avenue while families with young children ride in the bike lanes. At this particular intersection, there is also a school for students with special needs. This route is a danger to the community.
Signage needed to indicate that westbound trucks should turn at Flushing rather than 54th Street or Nurge
Trucks speed onto 54th street via this intersection -- due to the downhill it can be hard to see pedestrians and slow down in time.
Trucks come down 54th St from Metropolitan Ave at a high rate of speed. This block is residential with many young children, and the 45 degree "slip lane" turn does not signal to drivers that they should slow down.
Oversized trucks observed speeding up to make the light. Additionally, numerous sightings of trucks striking pedestrians and cyclists.
Since theres a lot of trucks on this street, I have a brother and he loves to play in the dirt. So the trucks make it so when he plays in the dirt, he might eat it. And the trucks make it so when my baby brother tries to put it in his mouth, the pollution can get into his body and make it bad. (Diego, age 6)
There are too many trucks on Van Brunt street. Red Hook is a small, largely under-served neighborhood, disproportionately impacted by traffic-related pollution (from the cruise ships and the traffic associated with them to the truck-centered delivery terminals). Trucks need to either be converted to electric vehicles or routed around the backside of the neighborhood through the less residential streets in the neighborhood.
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