The rapid growth of deliveries by e-commerce websites like Amazon have over the last decade sparked a rise in trucks and vans clogging city streets — and elected officials are scrambling to find a solution.

“E-commerce isn’t going away,” Manhattan borough president Mark Levine said Tuesday. “We’ve got to find ways to manage what is increasingly burdening our neighborhoods and presenting environmental and safety challenges.”

More than 2.4 million packages are delivered across the five boroughs each weekday, said a 2021 analysis from transportation consultant Charles Komanoff. That’s up from 1.5 million daily packages the city Department of Transportation reported in 2018.

Levine’s office this week recommended converting portions of private parking garages into areas for delivery companies to sort their packages — a maneuver that often takes place on busy streets and sidewalks.

“It totally disrupts sidewalks and flow of pedestrians,” said Levine. “Public space is precious here.”

A package of recommendations from Levine’s office also called for more loading zones designated for electric delivery vehicles as a way to encourage shippers like Amazon to move away from diesel trucks and gas-powered vans.

Additionally, Levine believes the city should establish neighborhood lockers where deliveries can be picked up, not unlike those installed by Amazon at some grocery stores. And he wants lawmakers in Albany to pass legislation to permit the use of cargo bikes as wide as 48 inches, up from the current limit of 36 inches.

Congestion caused by delivery vehicles costs New Yorkers $400 million a year in lost time, Komanoff said last year in a report commissioned by the City Council.

Komanoff said Levine’s proposals were a good way to address the issue, but said they aren’t enough without an additional tax on the traffic-clogging delivery companies.

He recommends charging delivery vehicles fees for every hour they spend within the busiest parts of the city, a tax that would be implemented on top of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s planned congestion pricing tolls.

“Without pricing curb space in the congested neighborhoods in the city it’s hard to see how these enlightened regulations are going to cut through the daily grind of too many claimants for too few spaces at the curb,” Komanoff said.

Levine said the recommendations laid out in his report garnered “nothing but enthusiasm” from lawmakers. He noted his report also pitched crackdowns to delivery companies by proposing reforms to the city’s stipulated parking fine program, which gives big shippers discounts to parking tickets in exchange for a guarantee the companies do not contest the fines in the city’s administrative courts.

The program has since 2001 issued more than $750 million in parking ticket discounts, records obtained by the Daily News analysis earlier this year revealed.

Levine wants city officials to reduce some discounts offered through the program. The city Department of Finance in May changed some of those discounts, including lowering the fines major delivery companies pay for parking in a bus lane from $100 to $85. Everyone else in the city is required to pay $115 for bus lane violations.

“As online delivery grows, congestion grows,” said Levine. “It’s one of the top sources of complaints we get in my office.”