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                                  1854

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 12, 2009
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Introduced  by  M. of A. NOLAN, MARKEY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
  COLTON -- read once and referred to  the  Committee  on  Corporations,
  Authorities and Commissions

AN  ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to establishing
  reliability indicators for the purpose of evaluating the effectiveness
  of capital funds spent in relation to the metropolitan  transportation
  authority

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Paragraph b of subdivision  1  of  section  1269-d  of  the
public  authorities  law, as amended by chapter 929 of the laws of 1986,
is amended to read as follows:
  b. Planned service and performance standards  for  each  year  of  the
period covered by the plan; including, in such plan submitted after July
first,  nineteen  hundred  eighty-eight,  (a)  standards for determining
frequency of service at peak hours and off-peak hours, (b) frequency  of
service  at  peak  and  off-peak  hours based on the application of such
standards to the current period for each subway line, bus route or group
of bus routes, and commuter rail lines, divisions or branches as  appro-
priate,  (c)  projected  performance  for each subway line, bus route or
group of bus routes, and commuter rail lines, divisions or  branches  as
appropriate  as  measured  by  reliability  indicators commonly utilized
within the transit industry, including such measures  as  mean  distance
between failures for [subway cars] PASSENGER VEHICLES, planned number of
vehicles  with air conditioning and projected reliability of such equip-
ment, planned standards for cleanliness of the interior and exterior  of
subway  cars,  commuter  rail  cars,  buses, and passenger stations, and
other appropriate measures of planned performance influencing the quali-
ty of services[;].  IN SUCH COMPONENT OF THE PLAN FOR THE BUS AND SUBWAY
SERVICES OF THE NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT AUTHORITY AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES AND
FOR THE STATEN ISLAND  RAPID  TRANSIT  AUTHORITY  SUBMITTED  AFTER  JULY

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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FIRST,  TWO  THOUSAND  ELEVEN,  THE RELIABILITY INDICATORS FOR PROJECTED
PERFORMANCE OF EACH SUBWAY LINE, BUS ROUTE OR GROUP OF BUS ROUTES, SHALL
INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO:
  (1)  THE ESTIMATED NUMBER OF PASSENGERS DELAYED MORE THAN FIVE MINUTES
AND LESS THAN TWENTY MINUTES AND,  DELAYED  MORE  THAN  TWENTY  MINUTES.
DELAYED  PASSENGERS  SHALL  INCLUDE,  BUT  NOT BE LIMITED TO, PASSENGERS
WAITING LONGER THAN THE SCHEDULED HEADWAY AT A BUS STOP OR RAPID TRANSIT
STATION, AND DELAYED ENROUTE OR ON BOARD A TRANSIT VEHICLE;
  (2) THE ESTIMATED NUMBER OF PASSENGERS THAT RIDE IN CROWDED  VEHICLES.
CROWDED  SHALL BE DEFINED BY IN EXCESS OF STANDARDS DEVELOPED UNDER THIS
PARAGRAPH; AND
  (3) THE NUMBER OF RAPID TRANSIT VEHICLES THAT PASS INTO AND OUT OF THE
CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT ON-TIME AS A PERCENT OF THE  TOTAL  NUMBER  OF
VEHICLES  SCHEDULED. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS PARAGRAPH THE CENTRAL BUSINESS
DISTRICT SHALL BE DEFINED AS THE BOROUGH  OF  MANHATTAN  SOUTH  OF  60TH
STREET.  FOR THE STATEN ISLAND RAPID TRANSIT AUTHORITY THE CENTRAL BUSI-
NESS DISTRICT SHALL BE DEFINED AS THE NORTHERN TERMINAL  OF  THAT  LINE.
ON-TIME  SHALL BE DEFINED AS ARRIVING AT THE BORDER OF THE CENTRAL BUSI-
NESS DISTRICT WITHIN THE TIME SCHEDULED FOR THE  NEXT  VEHICLE  OR  FOUR
MINUTES, WHICHEVER IS LESS;
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.