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Changes in trucking and delivery landscape since the pandemic
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Council Member Brooks-Powers inquires about changes in the trucking and delivery landscape since the pandemic. DOT officials explain the shift in delivery patterns and their responses to new challenges.
- Increase in deliveries to residential areas, now more than 50% of all deliveries
- Implementation of more loading zones, including in residential areas
- Ongoing truck route study to reflect changing patterns
- Introduction of micro hub program for last-mile deliveries by cargo bike or handcart
Selvena N. Brooks-Powers
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Thank you.
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I'm gonna pivot to trucks and deliveries.
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Approximately 90% of the city's goods are transported by truck.
0:39:09
With the rise of ecommerce, changing consumer behavior has led to an increase in deliveries to homes and businesses resulting in a greater number of trucks on our roads.
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These trucks require parking spaces to efficiently deliver these goods to New Yorkers without impacting the surrounding communities.
0:39:29
How has the landscape for trucking and deliveries changed since the pandemic?
Eric Beaton
0:39:38
Well I think you put it quite well that we've seen a lot more deliveries to residential areas.
0:39:45
Used to be that 60 to 70% of deliveries were happening to businesses and we're now seeing more than half of deliveries happening to residential areas.
0:39:54
People are not going to work every day.
0:39:58
Patterns have changed.
0:40:00
And so we've had an increase in issues on residential streets.
0:40:04
People concerned about double parking and trucks driving where really shouldn't be.
0:40:09
And that's why we are implementing more loading zones around the city, including in residential areas to make sure that they have places to safely pull to the curb.
0:40:19
It's why we're undertaking the truck route study to see if there's changes that need to reflect the different patterns there.
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It's why we're trying out this micro hub program to try to have trucks stop in a place where they really fit properly and then have the last mile delivery by cargo bike or handcart.
0:40:35
So I think there's been a big change.
0:40:37
I think we're we're really working to keep up with it.
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We certainly have a lot to do.