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Crash Data Shows Why NYC’s Truck Routes Need a Long Overdue Fix
Truck this! The city needs to completely redesign freight routes to save lives.
May 24, 2023
Truck Deaths Are Up 71% — Will Feds Require New Tech?
Will U.S. regulators let thousands of U.S. residents die preventable deaths just to save fleet operators a few dollars?
May 15, 2023
Why It’s So Hard to Import Small Trucks That Are Less Lethal to Pedestrians
A rise in rural Americans buying miniature trucks from Japan that meet their needs better than U.S. megacars is renewing calls for Congress to make it easier to buy smaller, safer vehicles from overseas — at least while U.S. automakers refuse to produce them here.
May 8, 2023
Pols and Advocates Demand City Crack Down on Last-Mile Facilities
Pols and advocates seeking to rein in the “last-mile” distribution facilities that are proliferating in low-income communities of color demanded — again — on Thursday that the city crack down on the gas-guzzling trucks ruining their neighborhoods.
February 16, 2023
Truck Depot Developer Wants to Restart His Bid for ‘Affordable’ Housing — But How Affordable?
A would-be developer who opened a truck depot after his quest to rezone a Harlem lot for housing was blocked by the neighborhood's Council member is peddling a new proposal that would result in more affordable housing than the original effort — but not as affordable as the lawmaker wants.
February 2, 2023
Attorney General James Says Harlem Truck Depot May Violate State Law
At the very least, it's a "public nuisance," says New York's top prosecutor.
January 30, 2023
Harlem Pol Rallies to Stop Truck Depot, But Won’t Meet Site Developer to Seek New Plan
“My theory of change is based in people power," Council Member Kristin Richardson Jordan said on Saturday.
January 22, 2023
‘Park Your Fleet’: Harlem Residents Decry Newly Opened Truck Depot On Site of Proposed Housing
A neighborhood that needs more housing and less pollution got the opposite.
January 19, 2023
National Safety Board Chair Discusses Vision Zero and the Problems of Heavy EVs
"We have to be careful that we aren’t also creating unintended consequences: more death on our roads."
January 18, 2023
Essay: Sarah Langenkamp Loved biking. She Shouldn’t Have Died Because of It.
"We can certainly turn around our deadly trends. Sarah, other victims, and so many families mourning this holiday season deserve at least as much."
December 4, 2022
