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The area has been rezoned for residential but this street still has a purely industrial design with no bike lanes or crosswalks. Where there is a crosswalk, people constantly park on top of it This needs to be fixed.
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
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We want to hear from you, help us identify how and where we can improve the movement of trucks on our city streets.
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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
The area has been rezoned for residential but this street still has a purely industrial design with no bike lanes or crosswalks. Where there is a crosswalk, people constantly park on top of it This needs to be fixed.
Roebling does not need to be a truck route. There are no industrial businesses on this street. Trucks can simply take Marcy instead.,
Uneven street surface on 37th Street between 3rd Avenue and Lexington Avenue (concrete droppings from a construction project)
At the intersection of Lexington Ave & E 36th Street in Manhattan on the roadway there are large bumps and dips in the road. I hear rattling trucks all the time from my apartment.
It's recklessly unsafe to have a truck route on these two residential blocks of Bergen St (between 5th Ave and 3rd Ave). Every day, we observe bikers (in the bike lane) who have to deal with 10,000 pound trucks looming over them (and almost always drifting into the bike lane themselves). Between the bike lane, the Bergen Bike Bus, the large volume of children living on the block, and the even larger volume of kids who use the street to walk to school, it is only a matter of time before this block is the scene of terrible accident. We urge the DOT to remove the truck route designation from Bergen St now before such an accident occurs.
City employees with placards routinely illegally park on Spring between Greenwich and Hudson leading to trucks double parking.
Limited truck loading zones on Varick between W. Houston and King. Trucks double park and create a bottleneck on Varick.
Limited truck-loading zones on Charlton. Trucks unload on the sidewalk, in the bike lane, or block the street.
This is a very busy intersection, filled with pedestrians and bicycles and not a lot of room. just a few feet from many bars and restaurants and nearby Barclay Center. It is an exceptionally unsafe condition to allow trucks (many of which are speeding). Also, Brownstone Brooklyn is not the place for a truck route that intersects with kids playing, strollers, bikes, etc. These unsafe and exceptionally crowded and noisy conditions will only get worse with the immense construction on 4th and Bergen. These blocks are also critical components of the city-bound bike infrastructure, with commuter bikes and cuticles galore. They are also used by the morning Bergen Street Bike Train for Kids. It is absolutely not a place for a truck and bus route. Please don't wait for a study to be completed to make this important change, before another person gets hurt or worse.
All of West 55th St., but particularly the block between 9th & 10th Aves., has been made very unsafe since the expansion of the curbside bike lane. This block in particular contains a school, factory, commercial, theater- and film-production, and industrial buildings, and warehouses; the need for truck parking is constant. Yet the painted curbside and bike-lane-side lanes are too narrow for most trucks and even for full-size school buses. In addition, when a truck or school bus is parked on each side, there is insufficient room for another truck, bus, or even ambulance to get through. There is a major hospital with emergency room just a few blocks from here, and I often hear ambulances stuck on the street, unable to get through. Finally, there is a huge dining shed that blocks not only a large part of the parking area, but projects to the edge of the driving lane, and prevents drivers from seeing pedestrians in the 10th Ave. crosswalk coming from the south side of the street. DOT's layout of this street is extremely dangerous.
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