Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Trucks

Six City Council Members Endorse de Blasio Trash Hauling Reforms

By Brad Aaron | Aug 23, 2016 | 2 Comments

A group of City Council members has endorsed Mayor de Blasio’s plan to reform the way commercial waste is collected. Antonio Reynoso, chair of the council’s sanitation and solid waste management committee, issued a statement praising the mayor’s proposal to cut the number of miles traveled by private carting fleets. Also signing on to the plan are council […]

Private Trash Hauler Critically Injures Cyclist in Flatbush [Updated]

By David Meyer | Aug 19, 2016 | 11 Comments

Update: NYPD identified the victim of this crash as Derrick Belton, 44. Belton died from his injuries on August 21, according to police. A private garbage truck driver struck and critically injured a 44-year-old cyclist at the intersection of Albany Avenue and Lefferts Avenue in Flatbush last night, highlighting the pervasive public safety risks in the commercial […]

Commercial Trash Carting Reforms Could Cut Millions of Miles of Truck Traffic

By David Meyer | Aug 18, 2016 | 17 Comments

Reforming the city’s commercial waste carting industry could reduce garbage truck traffic as much as 15 million miles each year, according to a new report from the Department of Sanitation and the Business Integrity Commission. The truck traffic reductions would come from switching to a “zone-based” system for commercial trash collection, a transition that the de Blasio […]

Why No Charges From Cy Vance for Hit-and-Run Killing of Noah Goldstein?

By David Meyer | Jun 30, 2016 | 35 Comments

Nearly two weeks have passed since a sanitation truck driver struck and killed 21-year-old Noah Goldstein near Columbus Circle and left the scene. The driver has been identified, yet police and Manhattan DA Cy Vance have filed no charges. The truck operator who killed Goldstein is free to keep driving on NYC streets. NYPD and Vance say an investigation […]

Labor and Advocacy Groups Call for Action on Unsafe Garbage Haulers

By David Meyer | Jun 16, 2016 | 2 Comments

A new report from Transform Don’t Trash NYC, a coalition of labor and advocacy groups including Teamsters Local 813 and Transportation Alternatives, is calling on the city to get unsafe sanitation trucks off NYC streets. The job of collecting garbage in the city is shared by the Department of Sanitation, which handles waste from residential and governmental buildings, and […]

Truck Driver Charged With Reckless Driving for Killing Heather Lough at NYBG

By Brad Aaron | May 4, 2016 | 18 Comments

A truck driver struck and killed a woman outside the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx last week. He has been charged with reckless driving and failure to yield. The victim, 29-year-old Heather Lough, was heading to her job at the botanical garden on the morning of Wednesday, April 27, when Robert Owens, 45, hit her with […]

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