Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Trucks

Feds Put Off Issuing New Trucking Safety Rules

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 1, 2011 | No Comments

Federal safety officials missed their own deadline Friday for making new rules about dangerous trucks. October 28 was the original deadline by which the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration was supposed to announce new hours-of-service regulations for trucking, but in the end, they gave themselves another month to do it. The pending change is the […]

Chris Ward: NYC Truck Traffic “an Economic and Environmental Crisis”

By Noah Kazis | Oct 13, 2011 | 6 Comments

Speaking at the Municipal Art Society’s annual summit this afternoon, outgoing Port Authority chief Chris Ward said he wouldn’t be sending any parting shots at the New York region’s leaders, but he didn’t hold back from proposing some big and bold ideas. With only a few weeks left at the Port Authority, Ward issued a […]

PlaNYC 2.0 Reactions: Joan Byron, Pratt Center for Community Development

By Ben Fried | Apr 22, 2011 | 5 Comments

Streetsblog has been gathering responses to yesterday’s release of PlaNYC 2.0. This is the second installment. Read the first part here. Joan Byron, director of policy at the Pratt Center for Community Development, told us the update to the city’s sustainability plan includes some promising developments on the truck traffic front. She noted that some […]

Marty Golden’s Truck Safety Bill Advances in the Senate

By Brad Aaron | Mar 4, 2011 | 7 Comments

A little-known bill that could save lives has cleared the State Senate Transportation Committee. Under S.3151, sponsored by Brooklyn Republican Marty Golden, trucks weighing over 26,000 pounds that are driven on city streets would be required to have convex (or “crossover”) mirrors allowing their drivers to see what’s directly in front of them. This sounds […]

DOT Adds Delivery Zones to Tackle Church Avenue Double Parking

By Noah Kazis | Dec 16, 2010 | 5 Comments

The fight for scarce street space is always fierce in New York City, and as DOT’s efforts to install bike and bus lanes across the city have revealed, the most contested zone of all is probably the curbside. On commercial streets, drivers can’t get enough of the underpriced on-street parking while businesses want curbside access […]

With Truck Mirror Law, Albany Can Save Children’s Lives Next Week

By Noah Kazis | Nov 24, 2010 | 1 Comment

Governor Paterson has called a special session for the legislature next week, and it’s full of big, tough bills. For example, both David Paterson and Andrew Cuomo are urging legislators to close a $315 million deficit, an action which could again steal dedicated funds from the MTA. Education funding is also on the docket. But […]

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