These are positive first steps, but they are not going to do what we need to do to truly move our freight from our roads and bridges onto our underutilized waterways.
If this is the pace that they're charting, we're never going to get there. It's too little, too slowly.
Trucks move nearly 90 percent of all freight in New York City - well above the national average of 70 percent.
The project would divert 350,000 truck miles annually onto the water, a tiny fraction of the seven billion annual truck miles on NYC's roads.
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