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DOT initiatives to address increased truck traffic and deliveries
1:11:28
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DOT Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez outlines various initiatives the department has undertaken to address increased truck traffic and deliveries in New York City.
- DOT is incentivizing overnight deliveries to reduce daytime truck traffic
- The department has implemented a micro hub pilot project on the Upper West Side
- A 'last mile' pilot project encourages the use of smaller, ideally electric vehicles for final delivery stages
- DOT has increased signage to clearly indicate where trucks are not allowed in the city
Ydanis Rodriguez
1:11:28
I'm gonna start and then first the pre commission and she will add it.
1:11:33
It definitely, you know, there's an increase of New Yorkers relying on those trucks to bring our deliveries.
1:11:46
85% of New Yorkers place an order once a week through Amazon, UPS, and FedEx.
1:11:52
And 24% of Yorkers are placing their order four times a week.
1:11:57
So when we talk about all those trucks in the street, it's like delivery worker that they go so fast.
1:12:02
They go fast because they only have five minutes from the moment when they pick up the food to bring it to us.
1:12:08
So when it comes to the truck, definitely, you know, we are looking on this and we have taken numbers of initiative.
1:12:14
We're trying to incentivize a a overnight delivery.
1:12:20
We also started the micro hub, which is the the first one that we did is the open West Side from Central Park West to Broadway from 86 To 70 Second Street that we have given the opportunity to the resident of that community to start planning on blank from blank on how they would like to use the street including those truck.
1:12:41
We do the last mile, which is a pilot project that also we are doing that is giving few location across the city that we allow in those UPS, FedEx, and and others to go and use those trucks to those locations.
1:12:57
But from that location to the last mile, they must use a smallest vehicle, ideally electric, pedal assistant bike, and other way to delivery.
1:13:09
We are also taking other measure when it came to have more sign that is pretty clear where truck are not allowed in our city.
1:13:20
But the first deputy commissioner will speak.