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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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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. [...] Even as NYCDOT’s Office of Freight Mobility continues to stall on implementation of strategies to reduce the impact of city truck traffic, the number of trucks entering the city is growing, and at a much faster rate than overall traffic, according to NYMTC’s annual Truck Toll Volume Trends. Annual truck traffic on major tolled [...] The best bet for reducing Long Island truck traffic is still alive. On Tuesday, Gov. Paterson vetoed a bill that would have killed plans for a truck-rail intermodal facility (the LITRIM project) in Brentwood. Paterson said in his veto message that it was premature to rule out the project before the environmental review process [...] In April the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission voted to allow the construction of a 4,280-space parking garage and a 1,094-space surface lot near NJ Transit’s Secaucus Junction rail station, a deeply misguided decision that will worsen traffic in the area, preclude expansion of the freight rail network, and contradict the spirit of the “transit [...] Once again, only the New York State Assembly stands in the way of NYC’s plan to reduce waste truck traffic. Last week, the New York State Senate voted to amend the Hudson River Park Act to allow a marine transfer station at the Gansevoort Peninsula in Manhattan. The transfer station is a key component [...] |
 
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