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Council Member Williams questions DOT on truck parking pilot program
1:12:00
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Council Member Nantasha M. Williams inquires about the DOT's truck parking pilot program, focusing on location selection, evaluation processes, and enforcement strategies. Deputy Commissioner Eric Beaton responds, detailing the collaborative approach with other agencies, criteria for selecting pilot locations, and the importance of balanced enforcement.
- The pilot program aims to provide designated parking for trucks while enforcing regulations in other areas.
- Locations were selected based on factors such as street width, proximity to truck routes, and appropriate land use.
- DOT emphasizes the need for both providing parking options and enforcing regulations to effectively address truck parking issues.
Nantasha M. Williams
1:12:00
Thank you.
1:12:02
Just the thing I'll just ask my question.
1:12:04
So I just wanted to know how you came up with the locations in the current pilot.
1:12:10
I also want to know did you conduct any specific evaluations prior to the implementation whether it be consultation with local precincts, community boards, the IBZs themselves and what evaluations do you plan to do or have you already done with the pilot around enforcement strategies, so lighting, pedestrian safety and security conditions and any and how any of these tools will vary depending on the local condition.
1:12:44
So like a part of this is like a carrot and a stick and so yes, it's great, we want to make sure there's parking for trucks but we also want to make sure that we are properly enforcing because without that we're not really solving the issue.
1:13:02
It has to be both in tandem and simultaneously.
Eric Beaton
1:13:07
Yes, absolutely.
1:13:10
And we've worked very closely with NYPD and a number of our sister agencies.
1:13:15
I'm not going to be able to list them all, but sanitation, there were some DEP issues.
1:13:21
We worked with all of them.
1:13:21
We did reach out to community boards and other local stakeholders for all of them.
1:13:26
But the idea is very much that you have to enforce to make this work, right?
1:13:30
That trucks aren't going to willingly go to a less convenient location and potentially pay a meter unless they're being enforced against elsewhere.
1:13:39
We also find that the enforcement works better if we have a way to tell them not just you can't be here and can't be anywhere, but that you do have a reasonable place to go.
1:13:48
Because otherwise, it just shifts the problem from one place to another.
1:13:52
So we fully agree.
1:13:55
In terms of the three locations for the pilot, they were selected based on trying to find streets in IBZs, streets that were wide enough that trucks could travel them without any issues, locations that were adjacent to the truck route networks so that trucks didn't have to go off route to get to the locations, having fronting land uses that were appropriate.
1:14:18
They're not residential.
1:14:19
They're generally fairly blank frontages.
1:14:23
So we all that and then we picked these three.
1:14:26
I think we know that they're not the only three in the city that will meet those criteria.
1:14:29
So we are looking at how it's going and are happy to work on other locations as well.
Nantasha M. Williams
1:14:37
Thanks.