{"id":337937,"date":"2026-09-04T11:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T11:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/337937\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T11:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T11:30:13","slug":"nyc-adds-40-miles-of-new-truck-routes-in-first-revision-since-1970s-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/337937\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC adds 40 miles of new truck routes in first revision since 1970s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">New York City&#8217;s Department of Transportation is rolling out <a data-ylk=\"slk:a redesigned network of truck routes;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/html\/dot\/html\/motorist\/trucks.shtml\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">a redesigned network of truck routes<\/a>, which are meant to keep the big vehicles off Gotham&#8217;s residential streets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The redesign, mandated by the City Council in a 2023 law, adds slightly more than 40 miles to the city&#8217;s 1970s-era network of truck routes, with roughly half of them on or leading to highways. DOT officials say the plan streamlines truck access to highways and industrial zones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Truck routes keep truck traffic off local streets and on designated corridors with the capacity to handle the safe movement of both people and freight,&#8221; Transportation Commissioner Mike Flynn said in a statement. &#8220;As our city grows, designating truck routes with intention and redesigning the corridors they run on with vigilance will contribute to healthier, safer and more prosperous communities across the five boroughs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">City law requires trucks to complete as much of their journey as possible through the Big Apple on the designated routes before reaching their destination. A truck is allowed to leave the network of routes in order to make a delivery \u2014 but not, say, to avoid traffic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The update is largely in line with a proposal made <a data-ylk=\"slk:by the department this spring;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/05\/04\/nyc-proposes-redesign-of-truck-route-network-to-limit-use-of-residential-streets\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">by the department this spring <\/a>\u2014 although community feedback led DOT to remove a proposed truck route on Brooklyn&#8217;s Third Ave. between 65th St. and 86th St. from the plan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In total, the plan will add roughly 11 miles of truck routes to Brooklyn, nearly 4 miles in the Bronx, 16 miles in Queens, 14 in Staten Island and nearly 1.5 miles in Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Meanwhile, about 5 miles of existing truck routes will be removed citywide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A DOT spokesperson said the department will make upgrades to the roads involved in the truck routes to improve pedestrian visibility and safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City&#8217;s Department of Transportation is rolling out a redesigned network of truck routes, which are meant&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6157,41779,9,126911,56,63,65,64,608],"class_list":["post-337937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-dot","tag-mike-flynn","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-citys-department-of-transportation","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}