NYC DOT announces 'microhubs' for delivery trucks

Delivery trucks, they keep us stocked up on everything from furniture to electronics to even groceries, but we also spent a lot of time dodging them in and out of traffic

So now there's a new pilot program on the Upper West Side aimed at cutting down on the number of delivery trucks on our city streets

Lock-Side's Arthur Chan shows us how these micro hubs work. We're all ordering delivery more than we ever have before, more than maybe we'd like to admit to ourselves even

We get like five deliveries a week? Maybe like five or six. Our increased reliance on deliveries, whether it be Amazon or otherwise, has led to a sharp increase in delivery trucks, which leads to more double parking

So, just in time for this Earth Day, the city's unveiled micro hubs, designated parking spots for trucks where they can offload to cargo bikes or push carts for the final stage of a delivery

Instead of having truck double parking on our street and in front of New Yorkers' homes

we have created dedicated space for safer unloading and deliveries Bollards have been installed at the city first three micro hubs all of them on the Upper West Side two on Amsterdam Avenue one on Broadway

The city says 84% of us New Yorkers are now ordering at least four deliveries a week

and that keeping trucks off narrow side streets will make a huge difference

I mean, yeah, why not? Yeah, give it a shot. I think in some areas, for sure

Like when, yeah, a truck stopped and like no one can move for like forever. Like, yeah, it's very annoying just to like deliver one package

Some, however, point out Thurside Street doesn't have a bike lane and wonder where the delivery bikes will ride and park

If those cars can park safely on the street, I think that's the most important thing

City officials emphasize this is a three-year pilot program during which they intend to collect a lot of data

including whether by giving trucks this lane to work in that there's less double parking by trucks in those lanes of traffic

In all, the pilot program calls for 36 micro hubs to be installed and studied to see if the city's new use of street space is worth sustaining

On the Upper West Side, Arthur Chien, Fox 5 News