Senate Bill S7161

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Removes Hylan Boulevard from Bus Rapid Transit Phase I for purposes of video monitoring of restricted bus lanes and owner liability for violations of such restrictions

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Transportation Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2013-S7161 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง1111-c, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S4583
2017-2018: S2590

2013-S7161 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Removes Hylan Boulevard from Bus Rapid Transit Phase I for purposes of video monitoring of restricted bus lanes and owner liability for violations of such restrictions.

2013-S7161 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2013-S7161 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  7161

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               May 1, 2014
                               ___________

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

AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law,  in  relation  to  removing
  Hylan  Boulevard  from Bus Rapid Transit Phase I for purposes of owner
  liability for failure to comply with bus lane restrictions

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

  Section  1.  Paragraph  4  of subdivision (c) of section 1111-c of the
vehicle and traffic law, as added by section 9 of part II of chapter  59
of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
  4.  "Bus  Rapid  Transit Phase I plan" shall mean the following [five]
FOUR bus rapid transit routes as designated by the New York city depart-
ment of transportation:  Fordham  Road,  First/Second  Avenue,  Nostrand
Avenue,  Thirty-Fourth  Street,  [Hylan  Boulevard,] and an undesignated
route in the borough of Queens not to exceed ten miles. For purposes  of
the  Fordham  Road  and First/Second Avenue routes, the authorization of
this pilot program is limited to the designated bus lanes as mapped  and
posted  on the official metropolitan transportation authority website as
of June seventeenth, two thousand ten. Such designated bus  lanes  shall
not be extended, shifted to another roadway or altered in any other way.
Provided,  however,  that nothing shall prohibit the alteration or addi-
tion of any bus stops within such mapped routes.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately, provided that the  amend-
ment  to paragraph 4 of subdivision (c) of section 1111-c of the vehicle
and traffic law, made by section one of this act, shall not  affect  the
repeal of such section and shall be deemed repealed therewith.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD14609-01-4

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