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Microhubs Pilot Program

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Rule status: Proposed

Agency: DOT

Comment by date: October 17, 2024

Rule Full Text
Notice-of-Public-Hearing_Microhubs-FINAL-with-certifications-1.pdf

The New York City Department of Transportation (“DOT”) is proposing an amendment to Section 4-08 of the Traffic Rules to establish and implement a permit for the use of microhubs as part of a pilot program mandated by Local Law 166 of 2021 to aid in congestion reduction and increase freight sustainability.

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Public Hearings

Date

October 17, 2024
10:00am - 11:00am EDT

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Online comments: 3

  • Martha Bush

    Please consider the families who live next to the proposed microhub locations and strongly limit the modes of transportation permitted for distribution. ‘Sustainable modes of transportation’, as defined in the proposed rule, could include tall and powerful vehicles with substantial blindspots. The permitted modes of transportation should be required to also be safe for pedestrians. Neighborhoods will not want these microhubs if nearby residents are threatened, injured, or killed by its drivers. Please limit the distribution vehicles to bicycles and handcarts with strict requirements for driver safety. Thank you

    Comment added September 18, 2024 10:55am

  • Armando A Crescenzi

    As a service-disabled veteran, duly licensed to vend food and merchandise,
    I must assert that the Microhub Program should include provisions for vendors who are veterans with service-connected injuries.
    The streets and sidewalks are have become very inhospitable, especially for disabled veterans. One way the City can honor its obligation to veterans is to set aside storage space and commissary space at each of the 20 Microhubs, for those disabled veterans who street vend, to include commissary space for our food carts.

    Thank you,

    Armando A. Crescenzi
    Put Veterans First, Ltd.

    Comment added October 2, 2024 12:25pm

  • Ali

    Establishing microhubs means that NYC is providing unfair advantage to ecommerce/Amazon/corporations – and not helping local stores.
    Establishing microhubs means NYC is encouraging residents to use ecommerce – instead of shopping locally.

    In the meantime, NYC has done nothing to help local shops and businesses which have been suffering from high rent, ecommerce competition, street vendor competition and crime.

    Also ecommerce is wasteful and bad for the environment.
    NYC should be taxing ecommerce – not encouraging ecommerce and not helping ecommerce (with microhubs as a faux “green solution”)

    Comment added October 6, 2024 3:20pm