Traffic & Transit
NYC Unveils New 'Smart Truck' Delivery Plan
Mayor Bill de Blasio outlined plans to increase overnight truck deliveries, create 70 truck corridors and shift some deliveries to bicycles.
NEW YORK CITY — A new streets plan could reshape how and when delivery trucks crisscross New York City.
The plan dubbed "Delivering New York" rolled out Thursday with a broad strokes pitch by Mayor Bill de Blasio.
He called it a "smart truck" initiative that will reshape how deliveries get around the city.
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"Today, we're now talking about how to change our approach to trucks in New York City, how to make truck traffic safer, how to reduce it at the hours when we don't want it, how to make it more sustainable," he said.
De Blasio unveiled the plan the fourth day of "Streets Week!" — a weeklong spate of announcements about, yes, the city's streets.
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The projects unveiled included reduced speed limits, new bike lanes and a long-awaited Queens Boulevard redesign.
The smart truck initiative includes plans to build improvements on 70 safety priority corridors, update truck routes and continue expanding off-hour overnight deliveries, according to the Department of Transportation.
The city will also create a permanent "cargo bike" program that incentivizes use of bicycles for commercial deliveries, de Blasio said.
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