Over a hundred demonstrators, including Manhattan Borough President C. Virginia Fields and many elected officials representing lower Manhattan constituencies gathered on the corner of Lafayette and Broome Street to protest policies and agency sloth that contributes to heavy duty vehicle impacts. Participants shouted for the half-dozen police minding the event to ticket trucks that rolled continuously down Broome Street, which is not a truck route.

The protest focused on three policy changes: The NYC Dept. of Sanitation plan to export most NYC trash by truck, the City DOT plan to revamp the truck route system without prioritizing community impact mitigation or promising better enforcement, and the MTA's proposal to perpetuate NYC Transit's dependence on polluting diesel buses.

Speakers at the rally all echoed City Councilmember Katheryn Freed's indictment of the MTA, "Until we get an MTA that thinks as highly of us as it does of Long Island (where MTA Long Island Bus has stopped buying new diesels), we aren't going to get clean air." They also strongly backed Assemblymember Deborah Glick's call for "enforcement day in and day out," of existing truck routes and rules. State Senator Tom Duane called for truck tolls on the East River bridges.