Bill Text: NY A06541 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 6541 (Prior Session Legislation)

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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]

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6541
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    March 26, 2015
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       Introduced by M. of A. CRESPO -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Transportation
       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  SIXTEEN  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,
   22  CLIFFS, DROP-OFFS OR DEEP BODIES OF WATER;  AND  (C)  THE  MEASURES  AND
   23  STRATEGIES THAT THE DEPARTMENT HAS UNDERTAKEN, OR PLANS TO UNDERTAKE, TO
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD00349-01-5
       A. 6541                             2
    1  IMPROVE  ROADWAY PERFORMANCE AND REDUCE THE RISK OF MOTOR VEHICLE TRAVEL
    2  LANE DEPARTURES AND CRASHES.
    3    S  2. Section 361 of the public authorities law is amended by adding a
    4  new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
    5    3. THE AUTHORITY SHALL STUDY AND EXAMINE THE PERFORMANCE OF THE  THRU-
    6  WAY IN REDUCING THE RISK OF MOTOR VEHICLES DEPARTING THE TRAVEL LANE AND
    7  OVERTURNING,  OR  COLLIDING WITH FIXED OBJECTS, OR COLLIDING WITH MOTOR-
    8  IZED OR NON-MOTORIZED VEHICLES OR PEDESTRIANS, OR LEAVING  THE  THRUWAY.
    9  SUCH  STUDY  AND  EXAMINATION  SHALL  INCLUDE,  BUT  NOT  BE LIMITED TO,
   10  SEGMENTS OF THE THRUWAY  WITH  A  HIGH  NUMBER  OF  FATAL  CRASHES,  AND
   11  SEGMENTS  WITH  HAZARDOUS  FEATURES  SUCH  AS STEEP SLOPES, EMBANKMENTS,
   12  CLIFFS, DROP-OFFS OR DEEP BODIES OF WATER. THE AUTHORITY SHALL SUBMIT  A
   13  REPORT  ON  LANE  DEPARTURES, UTILIZING EXISTING DATA WHENEVER POSSIBLE,
   14  BEGINNING NO LATER THAN AUGUST THIRTY-FIRST, TWO  THOUSAND  SIXTEEN  AND
   15  ANNUALLY  THEREAFTER,  TO  THE GOVERNOR AND THE LEGISLATURE WHICH REPORT
   16  SHALL INCLUDE BUT SHALL NOT BE LIMITED TO: (A) THE NUMBER  AND  TYPE  OF
   17  TRAVEL  LANE DEPARTURE CRASHES ON THE THRUWAY INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED
   18  TO, FIXED OBJECT, HEAD-ON, CROSS-OVER, ROLLOVER AND  SIDESWIPE  CRASHES,
   19  ROADWAY  DEPARTURES,  AND  THOSE  INVOLVING  NON-MOTORIZED  VEHICLES AND
   20  PEDESTRIANS; (B) THE EXTENT TO WHICH THE AUTHORITY  HAS  ANALYZED  CRASH
   21  DATA  AND  IDENTIFIED  AND  CONSIDERED  THE  SAFETY NEEDS OF THE THRUWAY
   22  INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO HIGH-FATALITY SEGMENTS  AND  SEGMENTS  WITH
   23  HAZARDOUS  FEATURES SUCH AS STEEP SLOPES, EMBANKMENTS, CLIFFS, DROP-OFFS
   24  OR DEEP BODIES OF WATER; AND (C) THE MEASURES AND  STRATEGIES  THAT  THE
   25  AUTHORITY  HAS  UNDERTAKEN,  OR  PLANS  TO UNDERTAKE, TO IMPROVE THRUWAY
   26  PERFORMANCE AND REDUCE THE RISK OF MOTOR VEHICLE TRAVEL LANE  DEPARTURES
   27  AND CRASHES.
   28    S  3.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
   29  have become a law.