There will be fewer traffic jams on the roads of New York: this should be ensured by new city laws

On Tuesday, November 23, city councilors overwhelmingly approved a series of measures aimed at reducing road chaos. Traffic of trucks delivering goods from online stores creates traffic congestion, reports The New York Post.

One step is looking at making sidewalk space available to companies such as Amazon and UPS.

Legislation requires the city's department of transport to allocate separate parking spaces only for loading in each area and to create “micro-distribution centers”. Distribution centers will serve to transfer parcels from large trucks to smaller transit vehicles such as e-bikes.

According to the legislation, DOT will establish five dedicated loading zones for each quarter of the year - a total of 1500 over three years.

Room charges have been on the DOT agenda for nearly three years. It is part of Mayor Bill de Blasio's stalled efforts to curb the abuse and misuse of parking permits in the city.

At one time, de Blasio's plan was to transfer the entire city to a new digital parking system by early 2021. The new system will automatically register cars as legally or illegally parked. But due to the pandemic, this system has not yet been launched. There are no new terms for its implementation at the moment.