Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Trucks

Nadler Revives Fight Against Trucker Giveaway on Verrazano

By Noah Kazis | Oct 15, 2010 | 21 Comments

The one-way tolls on the Verrazano Bridge have been a major cause of truck traffic in New York City since they were instituted in 1986. Though numerous efforts to restore two-way tolls have failed over the last two and a half decades, technological progress may finally bring victory within reach. Congressman Jerry Nadler thinks that […]

Fair Share Charter Fix Could Reduce Truck Traffic Burden for Some Nabes

By Noah Kazis | Aug 20, 2010 | 1 Comment

A truck loading at a waste transfer station in the South Bronx. Photo: jrwiener via Flickr A proposed amendment to the City Charter could help free certain neighborhoods from the grip of truck traffic and other unhealthy side effects of public facilities. Although the Charter Revision Commission looked set to leave New York’s land use […]

See a Pattern of Deadly Dump Trucks? Don’t Bother Federal Safety Officials

By Charles Komanoff | Jul 13, 2010 | 13 Comments

The driver of a private garbage truck ignored a bicyclist riding alongside and crushed him as the truck rounded the corner of Varick Avenue and Meserole Street in Bushwick last Wednesday evening, BushwickBK.com has reported, citing a preliminary NYPD investigation. According to police, the victim was Eling Rivera, 51, of East New York (a conflicting […]

Eyes on the Street: You Don’t Belong in the Bike Lane, Sir

By Ben Fried | Nov 11, 2009 | 25 Comments

A reader sends this photo of a huge rig using Kent Avenue’s new protected bike path as its own, highly illegal shortcut. Our tipster says the trucker was bearing down on him at a rapid clip for several blocks before slowing down enough to hear an inquiry through the window: "What do you think you’re […]

Latest Kent Avenue Bike Lane Complaint: Truck Traffic

By Ben Fried | Sep 18, 2009 | 27 Comments

One section of the Kent Avenue two-way bike path has been painted. Two more will follow. Image: NYCDOT [PDF]. We’ve got another dispatch from the ongoing bike lane drama that is Kent Avenue. At Wednesday night’s information session hosted by Brooklyn CB1, the DOT team gave a short presentation [PDF] outlining their plan to address […]

Tonight: Support Brooklyn Greenway and Safe Cycling at Kent Ave Meeting

By Ben Fried | Sep 16, 2009 | 5 Comments

Come out tonight and support the city’s first two-way, on-street protected bike path. If you care about safe biking in Williamsburg and Greenpoint and you’d like to see the Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway eventually reach completion, you’ll want to show up at tonight’s Brooklyn CB1 transportation meeting. The Kent Avenue bike lane is item number one […]

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