New York City Department of Transportation (NYC DOT) Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez today announced the launch of the agency’s groundbreaking Overnight Truck Parking Pilot, which introduces a new metered parking option in select industrial business zones (IBZ) for commercial vehicles, including large tractor trailers, in an effort to improve parking compliance and minimize overnight truck parking in residential areas.
The pilot will run for one year encouraging businesses to ensure compliance with parking regulations while providing drivers with safe and convenient parking options during legally-mandated rest periods.
The three IBZs selected for the pilot cover areas in three outer boroughs that have been plagued by illegal overnight parking. The pilot will cover corridors within the following IBZs.
- Flatlands/Fairfield IBZ in Brooklyn (Flatlands Avenue from Erskine Street to Fountain Avenue)
- Hunts Point IBZ in The Bronx (Ryawa Avenue from Manida Street to Halleck Street)
- Maspeth IBZ in Queens (56th Road from 43rd Street to 49th Street)
“We understand the importance of truck deliveries in New York City and our goals is to make them as safe, seamless, and environmentally-friendly as possible,” said NYC DOT Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez. “Too often, residential areas and working-class communities bear the burden of illegal overnight truck parking. This pilot will address this inequity by offering legal spaces for truck drivers to park in select industrial business zones.”
Truck operators will be able to use the ParkNYC app to pay for parking, which will be available 24 hours a day in eight-hour increments at $10 for each 8-hour session Monday through Saturday (there is no payment for parking citywide on Sundays).
To facilitate seamless parking payments, businesses are encouraged to sign up for a Park NYC Business Account, which will allow for all employee parking transactions to be managed centrally by the business. This account allows companies to manage all employee parking transactions through a single Park NYC wallet, simplifying the payment process for fleet operations. Businesses can ensure compliance with parking regulations while providing drivers with safe and convenient parking options during their mandated rest periods. Truck operators may park for consecutive eight-hour periods, if they choose.
“Nationally there are 11 trucks on the road for every one parking space nationally,” said Trucking Association of New York Vice President of Government Affairs Zach Miller. “In a dense urban environment like New York City, this shortage is far worse. The consequences of this shortage force truck drivers to either violate federal hours-of-service regulations that mandate rest breaks, or park in unsafe or unauthorized locations. This is a dangerous choice and is unfair to both the driver and the residents and communities that are impacted. This pilot program represents a meaningful step in the right direction—ensuring that drivers have access to parking during their rest hours so that freight can continue to move safely and efficiently throughout the five boroughs, while providing relief to neighborhoods that are impacted by overnight truck parking.”
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