New York City hopes to reduce emissions by creating a 'blue highways' program that embraces boats as a means of transporting freight.
New York City is working on a “blue highways” program that will someday move thousands of freight deliveries from trucks to boats, reducing street congestion and air pollution. The first boat in service, a 55-years vessel that still has its original diesel engine, is the beginning of “what city planners hope is a shipping revolution,” Liam Quigley writes for Gothamist.
The boat currently transports produce in a refrigerated container between Hunts Point and Manhattan. Ilana Mayid-Dennis, president of the company operating the freight boat, said she hopes the boat will one day be joined by hundreds more transporting cargo through NYC’s waterways.
New York City’s Economic Development Corporation has been working on the blue highways program for the last two years. The agency is currently seeking proposals for a barge service between Brooklyn and the Bronx, which officials want to transport at least 100 containers per day. The barge could be operational by 2030. The city also towed away its prison barge last year, and is going to “turn that space into a massive marine freight terminal,” Gothamist reports.
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