Who is tired of nyc ??? Here is a solution

here was my letter:

Good evening Senator Shumer,
My name is William Smith. I am a resident of N.J. However, my wife's family is from NYC. I hope you & your family are doing well. The reason for my letter to you today is because I'm concerned about the bridge height markings for truck drivers. Now before you dismiss my letter, I have a few good ideas that I believe would save NYC a lot of money as well as the drivers a lot of headache. In addition, some of my ideas would weed out the bad truck drivers that you wouldn't want driving in nyc. You see navigating in NYC has gotten to be so risky any more than most truck drivers refuse to go there. Even local drivers, like myself don't want to even drive there, because its like navigating through a mine field. In the field of transportation, NYC has got a bad rap, worse than any city in America. The truck maps that NY Dot hands out has numerous errors, too. For example it says we can drive to city island and across Brooklyn bridge. The clearance heights that are listed are between 1 to 3 feet off, if not more, so its like driving blind through nyc. It costs NYC money and truck drivers, their career. And the truck GPS are also incorrect when navigating through NYC, so how can a trucker survive if he is forced to deliver in the battlefield, so to speak. You can see this affects many parties; like, drivers, nyc, traffic, shippers & receivers, as well companies. If the heights were correctly readvised, if the maps were correctly readvised and Mandatory DOT check points were set up in each of the boroughs, this would save a great deal of money & headache. The bad truck drivers would be caught, and the other truck drivers could be assisted on making sure they know where they are going. A check point can be placed before the expressway turns into a parkway which enforces that drivers know they have to exit before its too late. That is just one of my many ideas I have more that I'd like to share with you and your staff. Please consider this letter. I appreciate your time.
Sincerely,
William Smith



from what i understand, the editor of Overdrive magazine is gonna publish it to also get Shumer's attention in the April addition

 

they spent 1,000,000 for a blinking sign. I figured with the way they have to stinking expressway run into the parkway, why no set up some sort of DOT, not to bust people's balls, but to say "hey, make sure you get off at the next exit, it becomes a parkway "

 

just got a letter from NJ Motor truck assc. They want me to call them tomorrow to discuss the issue. They said NY DOT is currently working on the problem to try to fix the low clearance signs to the right height and make a re advised map. We'll keep moving forward until we see progress!! This is my new mission.

 

I know nyc by car only, bc I go to visit the wife's family in queens and upper east side, and some of the "truck routes" on that dot truck map is wrong. Anyone can test me on that, take the dot map and compare it to google satellite, look at city island and you'll see a steel beam 10 ft high. We went to city island to have dinner over there, its a marina, and on the way home there was a truck who was stuck because he couldn't proceed forward and he couldn't turn around. The dot map says its a legal truck route though.