Bill Text: NY S09313 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the New York state bridge authority, the Triborough bridge authority, the Thousand Islands bridge authority, the Nassau county bridge authority, the Ogdensburg bridge authority, and the New York state thruway authority to develop a feasibility study to promote bicycle and pedestrian access on bridges and provide a report to the governor, temporary president of the senate, speaker of the assembly, and the public a copy of such plan.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-10 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S09313 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S09313-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9313

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 10, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the public authorities law,  in  relation  to  requiring
          certain  public  authorities to develop a feasibility study to promote
          bicyclist and pedestrian access on bridges statewide and  to  consider
          the impact of capital projects on bicyclist and pedestrian access

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The public authorities law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     2  section 543 to read as follows:
     3    §  543.  Pedestrian bridge access feasibility study.  1. The authority
     4  shall develop a pedestrian bridge access feasibility  study  to  analyze
     5  ways  to  improve bicycle and pedestrian access on roadway bridges under
     6  its jurisdiction. Such study shall include but not be limited to:
     7    (a) identification of bridges within the authority's jurisdiction that
     8  are suitable for safe bicycle and pedestrian access;
     9    (b) potential capital projects that  would  allow  for  and/or  expand
    10  bicycle and pedestrian access on bridges; and
    11    (c) a review of the authority's capital program plans in effect on and
    12  after  January first, two thousand twenty-three, to determine the impact
    13  of such projects on bicycle and pedestrian access and propose amendments
    14  and modifications to such capital program plans  that  would  allow  for
    15  and/or expand bicycle and pedestrian access on bridges.
    16    2. Within one year of the effective date of this section, the authori-
    17  ty shall submit a written report to the governor, temporary president of
    18  the senate, and speaker of the assembly, detailing the pedestrian bridge
    19  access feasibility study conducted pursuant to this section. Such report
    20  shall be made available to the public on the authority's website.
    21    § 2. The public authorities law is amended by adding a new section 593
    22  to read as follows:
    23    §  593.  Pedestrian  bridge  feasibility study. 1. The authority shall
    24  develop a pedestrian bridge access feasibility study to analyze ways  to
    25  improve  bicycle  and  pedestrian  access  on  roadway bridges under its
    26  jurisdiction. Such study shall include but not be limited to:

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    (a) identification of bridges within the authority's jurisdiction that
     2  are suitable for safe bicycle and pedestrian access;
     3    (b)  potential  capital  projects  that  would allow for and/or expand
     4  bicycle and pedestrian access on bridges; and
     5    (c) a review of the authority's capital program plans in effect on and
     6  after January first, two thousand twenty-three, to determine the  impact
     7  of such projects on bicycle and pedestrian access and propose amendments
     8  and  modifications  to  such  capital program plans that would allow for
     9  and/or expand bicycle and pedestrian access on bridges.
    10    2. Within one year of the effective date of this section, the authori-
    11  ty shall submit a written report to the governor, temporary president of
    12  the senate, and speaker of the assembly, detailing the pedestrian bridge
    13  access feasibility study conducted pursuant to this section. Such report
    14  shall be made available to the public on the authority's website.
    15    § 3. The public authorities law is amended by adding a new section 669
    16  to read as follows:
    17    § 669. Pedestrian bridge access feasibility study.  1.  The  authority
    18  shall  develop  a  pedestrian bridge access feasibility study to analyze
    19  ways to improve bicycle and pedestrian access on roadway  bridges  under
    20  its jurisdiction. Such study shall include but not be limited to:
    21    (a) identification of bridges within the authority's jurisdiction that
    22  are suitable for safe bicycle and pedestrian access;
    23    (b)  potential  capital  projects  that  would allow for and/or expand
    24  bicycle and pedestrian access on bridges; and
    25    (c) a review of the authority's capital program plans in effect on and
    26  after January first, two thousand twenty-three, to determine the  impact
    27  of such projects on bicycle and pedestrian access and propose amendments
    28  and  modifications  to  such  capital program plans that would allow for
    29  and/or expand bicycle and pedestrian access on bridges.
    30    2. Within one year of the effective date of this section, the authori-
    31  ty shall submit a written report to the governor, temporary president of
    32  the senate, and speaker of the assembly, detailing the pedestrian bridge
    33  access feasibility study conducted pursuant to this section. Such report
    34  shall be made available to the public on the authority's website.
    35    § 4. The public authorities law is amended by adding a new section 718
    36  to read as follows:
    37    § 718. Pedestrian bridge feasibility study.  1.  The  authority  shall
    38  develop  a pedestrian bridge access feasibility study to improve bicycle
    39  and pedestrian access on roadway bridges under  its  jurisdiction.  Such
    40  plan shall include but not be limited to:
    41    (a) identification of bridges within the authority's jurisdiction that
    42  are suitable for safe bicycle and pedestrian access;
    43    (b)  potential  capital  projects  that  would allow for and/or expand
    44  bicycle and pedestrian access on bridges; and
    45    (c) a review of the authority's capital program plans in effect on and
    46  after January first, two thousand twenty-three, to determine the  impact
    47  of such projects on bicycle and pedestrian access and propose amendments
    48  and  modifications  to  such  capital program plans that would allow for
    49  and/or expand bicycle and pedestrian access on bridges.
    50    2. Within one year of the effective date of this section, the authori-
    51  ty shall submit a written report to the governor, temporary president of
    52  the senate, and speaker of the assembly, detailing the pedestrian bridge
    53  access feasibility study conducted pursuant to this section. Such report
    54  shall be made available to the public on the authority's website.
    55    § 5. The public authorities law is amended by adding a new section 390
    56  to read as follows:
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     1    § 390. Pedestrian bridge access feasibility study.  1.  The  authority
     2  shall  develop  a  pedestrian bridge access feasibility study to improve
     3  bicycle and pedestrian access on roadway bridges under its jurisdiction.
     4  Such plan shall include but not be limited to:
     5    (a) identification of bridges within the authority's jurisdiction that
     6  are suitable for safe bicycle and pedestrian access;
     7    (b)  potential  capital  projects  that  would allow for and/or expand
     8  bicycle and pedestrian access on bridges; and
     9    (c) a review of the authority's capital program plans in effect on and
    10  after January first, two thousand twenty-three, to determine the  impact
    11  of such projects on bicycle and pedestrian access and propose amendments
    12  and  modifications  to  such  capital program plans that would allow for
    13  and/or expand bicycle and pedestrian access on bridges.
    14    2. Within one year of the effective date of this section, the authori-
    15  ty shall submit a written report to the governor, temporary president of
    16  the senate, and speaker of the assembly, detailing the pedestrian bridge
    17  access feasibility study conducted pursuant to this section. Such report
    18  shall be made available to the public on the authority's website.
    19    § 6.  This act shall take effect immediately.