Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Trucks

What would have been, the One45 development is now slated to be a truck depot. Source: Department of City Planning

Harlem Environmental Justice Group Blasts Developer for Truck Depot

By Julianne Cuba | Oct 14, 2022 | No Comments

Members of the Harlem community are decrying a developer's plan to build a controversial truck depot, warning that the decision to put profit over people’s health will send more pollution-spewing big rigs into the low-income community of color and worsen the environmental injustice already borne by the neighborhood.

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Surging Pickup and SUV Sales are Undermining EV Carbon Gains

By John DeCicco | Sep 28, 2022 | No Comments

In spite of rapidly growing sales, EVs have not yet measurably cut carbon. The reason why? A lack of meaningful regulations around megacars.

Congestion pricing will focus environmental mitigation efforts on long-neglected environmental justice communities, says Renae Reynolds.

OPINION: Congestion Pricing Will Bring Cleaner Air for All

By Renae Reynolds | Sep 14, 2022 | No Comments

The key to ensuring safer, more reliable, efficient, and accessible public transit, as well as cleaner air, less traffic congestion, and safer roads, is through a swift implementation of congestion pricing.

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‘We’re Luring Bicyclists To Their Deaths’: Husband of Diplomat Killed While Cycling Turns Anguish Into Advocacy

By Kea Wilson | Sep 1, 2022 | No Comments

He's raising money to stop other families from having to endure similar tragedies — and urging the public to reckon with an epidemic of traffic violence that's left his children without a mother.

Imagine if this truck driver was given space to leave his packages in a mini-distribution center, where they would be picked up by another worker on a cargo bike. File photo: Gersh Kuntzman

Microdose: NYC Takes Small Step Towards Cargo Bike And Small Vehicle Delivery Centers

By Dave Colon | Aug 23, 2022 | No Comments

A pilot slated for next year isn't anything close to the 'logistics hotels' of Paris, but it's a start.

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The First Step to Ending Pedestrian Deaths? Tax Heavy Cars In Cities

By Yonah Freemark | Jul 8, 2022 | No Comments

Washington is the first city in the nation to propose a targeted charge by vehicle weight, but even that ambitious policy falls short of similar weight charges in other countries.

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