NYC DOT Completes Mandated Truck Route Redesign to Shift More Truck Trips off Residential Streets

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September 4, 2026
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NYC DOT Completes Mandated Truck Route Redesign to Shift More Truck Trips off Residential Streets

Truck route network redesign will shift more truck trips off local streets, onto highways and industrial areas

Truck route network redesign reflects over two years' worth of feedback collected from community members by NYC DOT

NEW YORK - New York City Department of Transportation Commissioner Mike Flynn today announced the completion of the City Council-mandated truck route network redesign, the first redesign of New York City's truck network since the 1970s. This update to the City's truck route network will create new restrictions on where trucks can travel, helping shift truck trips off local streets and onto highways and in industrial areas with shorter connections to and from major industrial zones. Without designated truck routes, trucks can legally operate on any street with no mechanism for enforcement.

"Truck routes keep truck traffic off local streets and on designated corridors with the capacity to handle the safe movement of both people and freight," said NYC DOT Commissioner Mike Flynn. "As our city grows, designating truck routes with intention and redesigning the corridors they run on with vigilance will contribute to healthier, safer, and more prosperous communities across the five boroughs. We continue to work every day to reduce the number of truck trips in the city with delivery alternatives through the use of ferry barges, e-cargo bikes, and other smaller, last-mile delivery options."

Forty-five (45) percent of the updated truck route network will be on or leading to existing highways, and forty-two (42) percent of the updated truck route network is located within existing industrial business zones. By adding new routes, NYC DOT is creating new restrictions to limit where trucks can legally travel.

In tandem with the updated truck route network, NYC DOT will also pursue street improvement projects along newly designated truck routes to upgrade roadway designs in accordance with citywide best practices to improve visibility and enhance safety for crossing pedestrians. NYC DOT will also install more than 600 new roadway signs along updated routes. The truck route network update follows NYC DOT's review of more than 2,000 comments during public outreach. The full list of truck route updates can be viewed online. For more information, visit nyc.gov/trucks.

Local Law 171 required NYC DOT to redesign the city truck route network, with community input, and make any changes that would enhance safety, increase visibility, reduce traffic congestion, reduce vehicle miles traveled, or otherwise facilitate the conduct of vehicular traffic within the city truck route network.

The NYC DOT is working to reduce the city's reliance on trucks for deliveries through a variety of initiatives, including its joint Blue Highways program with the city's Economic Development Corporation to shift more freight off of streets and onto the city's waterways; NYC DOT's commercial cargo bike program to promote deliveries by bicycle; and the agency's Microhubs program to create central last-mile delivery transitions from trucks to bikes and handcarts.