Want to really understand the city’s long-awaited new truck route map? Brush up on “A Tale of Two Cities.“
There’s a Dickensian quality to how two adjoining Brooklyn neighborhoods — Sunset Park and Bay Ridge — ended up looking so different on the Department of Transportation’s new Truck Route Network, the first-such revamp in over 50 years.
Neither neighborhood wanted an additional truck route put on the map, but only one, Bay Ridge, emerged without one. That simple victory might be Pyrrhic in the end, but it underscored the DOT’s challenge in dealing with an intractable truck problem in an age of expanding have-it-now deliveries…