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Initiatives to shift freight and promote cleaner transportation
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Commissioner Aggarwala outlines various initiatives aimed at shifting freight away from trucks and promoting cleaner transportation methods in New York City.
- Clean Trucks program has funded more than 700 clean trucks
- Largest cargo bike program in the country with over 130,000 trips per year
- Micro hub pilot program to transfer deliveries to smaller, sustainable modes
- Off-hour deliveries program with over 1,000 locations participating
- Blue Highways program to reactivate marine infrastructure for freight movement
- Efforts to shift more freight to rail, with the city owning three freight rail facilities
- Department of Sanitation is the biggest user of rail freight in NYC
Rohit Aggarwala
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The Clean Trucks program, administered by DOT and funded by the federal government, has funded more than 700 clean trucks, six seventy two of them replacements.
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Starting this March, NYCCTP will be using the remaining U.
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EPA Volkswagen settlement funding to support zero emission vehicles exclusively.
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DOT has been making it has been working to make it easier for delivery companies to adopt electric cargo bikes.
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New York City has the largest cargo bike program in the country with more than 130,000 cargo bike trips each year.
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DOT is also promoting micro hubs which provide dedicated spaces for truck operators to transfer deliveries onto smaller, more sustainable modes of transportation such as bikes and hand carts.
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The initial micro hub pilot program will include up to 36 locations with the first five locations launching this year on the Upper West Side under the BQE in Clinton Hill and in Greenpoint.
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DOT's off hour deliveries program has over a thousand locations participating And DOT recently launched a $6,000,000 incentive program to provide small businesses with tools and technologies to allow for overnight deliveries.
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The program aims to add 5,000 off hour delivery locations by 02/1940, shifting 62,000 trucks away from peak hours.
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New York City EDC and DOT continue to work on a Blue Highways program to reactivate marine infrastructure, helping to shift deliveries from larger trucks waterways.
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Today, only eight percent of our freight moves by water.
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The city is working with the private sector through the Blue Highway RFEI to identify opportunities to reactivate waterways, including pilots to test how we can use our existing passenger ferry network and infrastructure to move goods up and down the East And Hudson Rivers.
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The city and its partners in the federal and state governments are investing $368,000,000 to modernize and electrify the Bricklin Marine Terminal, reimagining the 122 acre site as a key node in our Blue Highway network.
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We are also looking to shift more freight to rail.
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New York City's network of more than 90 miles of freight lines and nine rail yards are assets with
Jim Gennaro
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Rita, I have to hold up again.
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I just wanna make because the version I have is a little different than the version you have.
Rohit Aggarwala
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Sorry?
Jim Gennaro
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No.
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Isn't it here?
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90 miles.
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Right?
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New York City rail freight networks includes over 90 miles.
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That that's that's that's who we are, right?
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Okay.
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Alright.
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Alright.
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Please continue.
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However,