Blue Highways Plan aims to reduce traffic, create jobs

The way many goods come into the city most often starts on a container barge.

“Today, food containers from South and Central America come in to the Brooklyn Marine Terminal, much of it gets on a barge and floats back to New Jersey,” said Andrew Kimball, president of NYC Economic Development Corporation.

“It goes into cold storage. It gets on a truck. It comes over the bridge to the Bronx, goes to our produce center and meat market and fish market. It gets processed. And then it goes up by truck again. That is not sustainable.”

With freight volumes expected to grow 67% by 2045, NYCEDC, along with the city transportation department, has released the Blue Highways Action Plan.

The plan identifies 25 possible landing sites in the city where, instead of those goods going back onto trucks, t