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 an intimidating intersection to cross as a pedestrian. It's also hard for trucks, who have a lot to manage turning onto the road to get to the bridge or Tillary St, time managing their speed, seeing pedestrians, and making the turn safely
This is an impossible place for oversize trucks to turn
Trucks constantly blocking up the intersection, preventing pedestrians from crossing and creating traffic jams.
Clinton Street is not a truck route, but I see literally dozens or even 100s of trucks per day using it as a shortcut. The street is too narrow and has too many pedestrians and outdoor dining setups to be safely used as a truck shortcut. Please add signage and enforce violations on Clinton Street.
I wish I could submit a photo or video of the weekday mornings at this intersection. It is a long line of tractor trailer, after tractor trailer, after construction truck rolling through in both directions while the children are being dropped off at school. This is a residential neighborhood with an elementary school and the volume of truck traffic is a safety and health hazard to everyone.
Tractor trailers often pull off to the side of the road here for a break and their trucks are idling and emitting fumes and exhaust.
National grid tore up the street and only re-paved small slices of the street. There are a series of potholes from NE side of Metropolitan/Graham all the way through Metropolitan/Manhattan intersection that cause thunderous noise when tractor trailers and construction/dump trucks hit them. This street needs to be repaved in its entirety.
Road and sidewalk blocked with deliveries unloading.
Often as I am walking my dog and grandchildren, we have to back away from the curb in order to let a turning truck cut this corner, since Bergen Street is not very wide. It's especially upsetting that bikes should have to move onto the sidewalks as well to avoid turning trucks. Also, the noise they make barreling down our street between 5th and 4th Ave rattles the house and seems quite unnecessary given that the wider, and commercial, Flatbush and Atlantic Ave (which runs parallel to Bergen) is only a two blocks away. Not to mention that the narrowness of Bergen St makes it impossible for these trucks to pass local construction vans or other delivery cars, which results in a lot of idling and honking, and quite often yelling and shouting road rage.
Trucks routinely speed down this residential street where I live. There appears to be no reason why trucks should even take this route - there are large arterial roads (aka Flatbush) that would be more appropriate than the detour that trucks currently take through a brownstone residential area filled with children, pets and a bike route.
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