Vans delivering Amazon packages in New York City drew more than 14,000 traffic citations between mid-2020 and mid-2025, according to a city-data report from labor-aligned advocacy group The Alliance for a Greater New York. The tickets went to 637 vans across all five boroughs for speeding in school zones, parking in front of fire hydrants, and getting in the way of ambulances and fire trucks, and Amazon vans also drew roughly 13,000 idling complaints from residents. Amazon said it trains drivers, puts safety cameras in vans, and makes the contractors who employ the drivers pay their tickets. Consumer and worker protection commissioner Samuel Levine cited the report in pushing the Delivery Protection Act, which would make Amazon employ those drivers itself.
