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NYC streets are becoming a battle of bike lanes versus truck parking.
- $4 have become a typical addition to many $4 streets.
- That's made the job of delivery $4 in the city more challenging as parking has diminished.
- Still, few bikers are sympathetic to the challenges truck drivers face in the city.
Biking has become wildly popular in New York City the past decade.
New York City officials $4 that the number of daily bike trips in the city has jumped from 170,000 in 2005 to 450,000 in 2017. It's $4 of transport in New York.
As a result, bike lanes are becoming more common. The NYC Department of
The new bike lanes are excellent for New York's population of bike users. They're not so great for delivery truck drivers.
Miguel Santiago has been a Coca-Cola delivery truck driver for 20 years. Business Insider $4 with him and his delivery helper Louis Gonzales.
"Ten years we're all gonna be on the sidewalk - the cars, the people," Gonzales $4. "It's horrible when it comes to parking."
As Santiago and Gonzales worked to unload case after case of beverages, often working in the street, it was clear that delivery drivers who work in New York City are just trying to do their jobs. And while Gonzales talked about his own personal interest in biking, the lanes have made his and others' jobs more challenging.
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Delivery truck drivers have lost much of their parking space as bike lanes have exploded across the city. Commercial vehicles have comprised more than 60% of bike lane obstruction tickets in New York, $4.
Delivery drivers are under pressure to unload and often stock the goods they're dropping off on a tight schedule. They can't wait or drive around looking for parking if they have, as Santiago and Gonzales do, $4 to service in a day.
Commercial vehicles are allowed to double park in the street $4, but that's not always an option. Sometimes, truck drivers have to park in bike lanes.
But people rarely give them a break in New York:
Meanwhile, New York City mayor Bill de Blasio has professed a more laissez-faire view of parking in bike lanes.
"If someone's blocking ... a bike lane for 30 seconds while they take out the groceries or to let their kid off, I don't think they should get a ticket for that," he said $4 earlier this year.
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