Trucks Said To Plague Brooklyn

New York City - Whether in the middle of the night or at midday, trucks come barreling down the city's streets, noisy and overladen, spewing noxious clouds. It happens everywhere, but especially in downtown Brooklyn, traffic relief advocates say. "Everywhere I go in the city, everybody agrees that there are too many," the New York City coordinator for the Tri-State Transportation Campaign, said about the number of trucks on city streets.

So city council members, community boards, and neighborhood associations, are taking the city's Department of Transportation to task on its progress in dealing with the city's truck traffic.

The council's Transportation Committee, headed by Council Member John Liu, is conducting a hearing to determine the department's progress in dealing with the problem. He said the department's promise to make an impact on truck traffic is long overdue. The department had said it would have results by the end of 2005, he said.