Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Trucks

Ninth Street Update: Robert’s Rules of Order

By Aaron Naparstek | | 24 Comments
First off, please accept my apologies for continuing to torture you with the intensely parochial drama taking place on Park Slope’s 9th Street. I justify all of this coverage by imagining that this story may be useful for advocates working towards Livable Streets goals in other neighborhoods. For those who are just coming in to […]

City Finally Finishes Eight-Year-Long Truck Study

By Aaron Naparstek | | 5 Comments
Yesterday, the Department of Transportation announced the publication of its Truck Route Management and Community Impact Reduction Study. The study, which began over eight years ago (PDF), recommends the establishment of an Office of Freight Mobility, new educational materials and public outreach efforts, improved street signs, better enforcement, and some policy and regulatory changes — […]

The Greening of the Times

By Sarah Goodyear | | No Comments
Today’s New York Times has an entire section on "The Business of Being Green" (Times Select), which includes articles on economies of scale in alternative energy, carbon-offset shopping, the possibly endangered practice of truck idling, Danish wind farms, and environmental litigation. The left-leaning Guardian of London has long made green stories a staple of its […]

Crack Down on Drivers, Not iPods

By Charles Komanoff | | 13 Comments
Two pedestrians were killed in New York City last December by private sanitation trucks, one on Park Avenue South in Manhattan and one in Brooklyn Heights. Both deaths followed the most common pattern of pedestrian death in New York — the peds were crossing the street, in the crosswalk, with the light, and a turning […]
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