The city Department of Transportation on Thursday launched an overnight parking pilot program for large tractor trailers, which asks drivers or their employers to pay to park their trucks overnight.
The pilot will run for one year and encourages drivers to park in designated industrial business zones (IBZ) and not in residential areas, according to a press release.
“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 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.”
The three IBZs selected for the pilot cover areas in three outer boroughs that have been plagued by illegal overnight parking. The pilot program will be launched in the Flatlands/Fairfield IBZ in Brooklyn (Flatlands Avenue from Erskine Street to Fountain Avenue), as well as in Hunts Point in the Bronx and Maspeth in Queens.
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).
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.
Truck operators may park for consecutive eight-hour periods, if they choose.
