The city will launch a pilot program testing neighborhood delivery “microhubs” across the five boroughs, aimed at reducing the surge of truck traffic racing to meet New Yorkers’ insatiable demand for home delivery.
Starting this summer, the Department of Transportation says that it will build out up to 20 hubs, both curbside and off-street, where large delivery trucks can unload goods and transfer them to smaller-scale modes of transportation, such as vans, cargo bikes, or even hand-pulled carts, which would make the final leg of the journey to the customer’s door.
