Bill Text: NY A06541 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires a study of the performance of the state's roadways in reducing the risk of motor vehicles departing the travel lane and overturning, or colliding with fixed objects, or colliding with motorized or non-motorized vehicles or pedestrians, or leaving the roadway; further requires the commissioner of transportation and the thruway authority to submit a report to the governor and legislature.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-04-07 - print number 6541a [A06541 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A06541-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6541--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 26, 2015 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CRESPO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation -- recommitted to the Committee on Transportation in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit- tee AN ACT to amend the transportation law and the public authorities law, in relation to the study and examination of the state's roadways and the thruway in reducing certain motor vehicle risks The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 14 of the transportation law is amended by adding 2 a new subdivision 36 to read as follows: 3 36. To study and examine the performance of the state's roadways in 4 reducing the risk of motor vehicles departing the travel lane and over- 5 turning, or colliding with fixed objects, or colliding with motorized or 6 non-motorized vehicles or pedestrians, or leaving the roadway. Such 7 study and examination shall include, but not be limited to, segments of 8 the state's roadways with a high number of fatal crashes, and segments 9 of roadway with hazardous features such as steep slopes, embankments, 10 cliffs, drop-offs or deep bodies of water. The commissioner shall submit 11 a report on lane departures, utilizing existing data whenever possible, 12 beginning no later than August thirty-first, two thousand seventeen and 13 annually thereafter, to the governor and the legislature which report 14 shall include but shall not be limited to: (a) the number and type of 15 travel lane departure crashes on the state's roadways including, but not 16 limited to, fixed object, head-on, cross-over, rollover and sideswipe 17 crashes, roadway departures, and those involving non-motorized vehicles 18 and pedestrians; (b) the extent to which the department has analyzed 19 crash data and identified and considered the safety needs of the state's 20 roadways including but not limited to high-fatality segments and 21 segments with hazardous features such as steep slopes, embankments, EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00349-03-6