Gothamist: How Should the City Keep Truckin'

Dave

Tue, 14 Feb 2006 21:13:03 -0500

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.

m

Tue, 14 Feb 2006 18:14:42 -0500

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.

ann

Tue, 14 Feb 2006 16:21:42 -0500

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

Tue, 14 Feb 2006 16:08:54 -0500

Waiting for the critical mass people to propose that everything be biked in or wheeled on dollys.

straphanger

Tue, 14 Feb 2006 14:02:44 -0500

Delivery trucks have much better reasons to double park than people who drive cars despite the presence of subways, buses and trains.