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The Department of Transportation will be questioned at City Hall today over the city's plans for truck routes. The DoT recently completed a two-year study about changing truck routes - a couple years after it was requested - and according to the Post article, truck traffic will go up by 50% in the next fifteen years. So, teleporters won't be invented by then, huh? What's funny is that the City Council's meeting name is "Truck, Trucks, Everywhere: Does the City Make Any Effort to Manage Truck Traffic?" and transportation chair, John Liu (big news day for him), says, "For too long, it has been generating into a truck free-for-all through our residential neighborhoods." Other interesting fact: The last time the truck routes were mapped was 1982 - there's 24 years of gentrification that's unaccounted for! And trucks do cause traffic issues, with the double parking...
Check out truck routes in each borough. And take a look at Transportation Alternatives' thoughts on the issue ("Lack of regional freight transportation planning has led to a situation in which New York is overrun with enormous trucks.").
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Delivery trucks have much better reasons to double park than people who drive cars despite the presence of subways, buses and trains.
Waiting for the critical mass people to propose that everything be biked in or wheeled on dollys.
its weird, my little street isn't anywhere NEAR an official truck route, and yet, come 5-6am in the morning, all you hear roaring in front of my apartment is trucks, trucks, trucks and more trucks
sigh, i guess its a "secret" throughway for the truckers
hr - nice snarky comment with no constructive content. Who are "critical mass people"?
However, there are better options than our current freight situation. We can improve our freight rail capacity, so we can shift trucks off the road. we also work on *reducing* our consumption of non-local goods and over-packaged products. finally, yes, there are serious, well thought-out models of freight distribution where rail/truck delivery is handled by electric dollys for the last leg of the trip.
If you want to reduce truck traffic in NYC, there's a simple way to do it: Stop charging tolls one-way at the Verrazano Bridge. Currently they charge twice the toll going from Brooklyn to Staten Island and its free coming back the other way. Truck drivers want to be able to leave NYC for free, so they drive through Canal Street to get to the Holland Tunnel. If the tolls were charged in both directions then the trucks would have less reason to detour through Manhattan in order to avoid Staten Island.