“53-foot semi-trailers are prohibited on the vast majority of the streets of New York City.”
The ban on 53-foot trailers is clear and nobody enforces it. London went the other way and wrote a direct vision standard, so drivers can actually see the cyclist next to them. Volta built an electric truck around it, citing TfL figures that trucks are in 26 percent of pedestrian deaths on 4 percent of road miles. American cities will keep running awareness campaigns instead.