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OUTRAGE has previously helped organize truck enforcement crackdowns. OUTRAGE, a local group advocating to reduce community impacts of truck traffic in North Brooklyn, is organizing a survey to document truck traffic in Williamsburg and Greenpoint and needs volunteers. OUTRAGE, which stands for Organizations United for Trash Reduction And Garbage Equity, conducted a similar truck study [...] The Brooklyn communities of Greenpoint and Williamsburg deal with some of the worst truck traffic in New York City and are calling on Mayor Bloomberg to do more about it. Brooklyn Community Board 1 recently sent a letter to the Mayor asking him to improve truck traffic management and enforcement by directing “all city agencies” [...] Parts of Newark are close to light rail but not commuter rail stations. Last week, state legislators passed the New Jersey Economic Stimulus Act of 2009, an omnibus bill designed to stimulate private sector development and job growth while revitalizing urban hubs. Sponsored by Assembly Majority Leader Joe Roberts, A4048/S2299 expands the Urban Transit Hub [...] On Monday, CSX Transportation unveiled four new ultra-low emission locomotives for exclusive operation at its Oak Point Yard in the heart of the South Bronx, a neighborhood long plagued by high asthma hospitalization rates, poor air quality, and disproportionate amounts of truck traffic. The new engines, known as GenSet, were retrofitted to existing rail cars and will [...] Buried deep in NJDOT’s 423-page draft 2010 Capital Program is $30 million for the “Cross-Harbor Freight Movement Project,” an enhancement of the Greenville Yard/Brooklyn railcar float system. This is the biggest chunk of rail freight funds in the program, which also includes $12.5 million in statewide rail freight funds and $750,000 for a freight information [...] NYPD officers should now be carrying a pamphlet with truck routes and a list of truck violations. Since MTR reported on the rise of NYC truck traffic in September and wondered what NYCDOT was doing to address it, we’ve learned that NYCDOT’s Office of Freight Mobility is indeed moving forward on several initiatives to manage [...] As reported by the NY Times‘ City Room blog, Con Ed announced on Monday that it is walking away from a land sale that would have led to the construction of a major FedEx distribution center in Astoria, Queens. The distribution center would have unleashed hundreds of trucks on the residential streets, in an [...] Traffic calming measures such as medians and bulb-outs could slow down trucks and alert them that they are entering residential areas. (Image via TrafficCalming.org.) New York State held a public hearing in Syracuse last week on a proposed statewide truck policy aimed at keeping large tractor-trailers off of local roads and neighborhood streets. The [...] |
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