Bill Text: NY A08300 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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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: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-2)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-07 - reported referred to ways and means [A08300 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08300-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         8300--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    November 27, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. FAHY, THIELE, SEAWRIGHT, SIMON, LUNSFORD, SMUL-
          LEN, SHIMSKY, LUCAS, McDONALD, SEPTIMO, KELLES --  Multi-Sponsored  by
          --  M. of A. COOK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Corpo-
          rations, Authorities and Commissions -- recommitted to  the  Committee
          on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions in accordance with Assem-
          bly  Rule  3,  sec.  2  -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        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

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  access feasibility study conducted pursuant to this section. Such report
     2  shall be made available to the public on the authority's website.
     3    § 2. The public authorities law is amended by adding a new section 593
     4  to read as follows:
     5    §  593.  Pedestrian  bridge  feasibility study. 1. The authority shall
     6  develop a pedestrian bridge access feasibility study to analyze ways  to
     7  improve  bicycle  and  pedestrian  access  on  roadway bridges under its
     8  jurisdiction. Such study shall include but not be limited to:
     9    (a) identification of bridges within the authority's jurisdiction that
    10  are suitable for safe bicycle and pedestrian access;
    11    (b) potential capital projects that  would  allow  for  and/or  expand
    12  bicycle and pedestrian access on bridges; and
    13    (c) a review of the authority's capital program plans in effect on and
    14  after  January first, two thousand twenty-three, to determine the impact
    15  of such projects on bicycle and pedestrian access and propose amendments
    16  and modifications to such capital program plans  that  would  allow  for
    17  and/or expand bicycle and pedestrian access on bridges.
    18    2. Within one year of the effective date of this section, the authori-
    19  ty shall submit a written report to the governor, temporary president of
    20  the senate, and speaker of the assembly, detailing the pedestrian bridge
    21  access feasibility study conducted pursuant to this section. Such report
    22  shall be made available to the public on the authority's website.
    23    § 3. The public authorities law is amended by adding a new section 669
    24  to read as follows:
    25    §  669.  Pedestrian  bridge access feasibility study. 1. The authority
    26  shall develop a pedestrian bridge access feasibility  study  to  analyze
    27  ways  to  improve bicycle and pedestrian access on roadway bridges under
    28  its jurisdiction. Such study shall include but not be limited to:
    29    (a) identification of bridges within the authority's jurisdiction that
    30  are suitable for safe bicycle and pedestrian access;
    31    (b) potential capital projects that  would  allow  for  and/or  expand
    32  bicycle and pedestrian access on bridges; and
    33    (c) a review of the authority's capital program plans in effect on and
    34  after  January first, two thousand twenty-three, to determine the impact
    35  of such projects on bicycle and pedestrian access and propose amendments
    36  and modifications to such capital program plans  that  would  allow  for
    37  and/or expand bicycle and pedestrian access on bridges.
    38    2. Within one year of the effective date of this section, the authori-
    39  ty shall submit a written report to the governor, temporary president of
    40  the senate, and speaker of the assembly, detailing the pedestrian bridge
    41  access feasibility study conducted pursuant to this section. Such report
    42  shall be made available to the public on the authority's website.
    43    § 4. The public authorities law is amended by adding a new section 718
    44  to read as follows:
    45    §  718.  Pedestrian  bridge  feasibility study. 1. The authority shall
    46  develop a pedestrian bridge access feasibility study to improve  bicycle
    47  and  pedestrian  access  on roadway bridges under its jurisdiction. Such
    48  plan shall include but not be limited to:
    49    (a) identification of bridges within the authority's jurisdiction that
    50  are suitable for safe bicycle and pedestrian access;
    51    (b) potential capital projects that  would  allow  for  and/or  expand
    52  bicycle and pedestrian access on bridges; and
    53    (c) a review of the authority's capital program plans in effect on and
    54  after  January first, two thousand twenty-three, to determine the impact
    55  of such projects on bicycle and pedestrian access and propose amendments
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     1  and modifications to such capital program plans  that  would  allow  for
     2  and/or expand bicycle and pedestrian access on bridges.
     3    2. Within one year of the effective date of this section, the authori-
     4  ty shall submit a written report to the governor, temporary president of
     5  the senate, and speaker of the assembly, detailing the pedestrian bridge
     6  access feasibility study conducted pursuant to this section. Such report
     7  shall be made available to the public on the authority's website.
     8    § 5. The public authorities law is amended by adding a new section 390
     9  to read as follows:
    10    §  390.  Pedestrian  bridge access feasibility study. 1. The authority
    11  shall develop a pedestrian bridge access feasibility  study  to  improve
    12  bicycle and pedestrian access on roadway bridges under its jurisdiction.
    13  Such plan shall include but not be limited to:
    14    (a) identification of bridges within the authority's jurisdiction that
    15  are suitable for safe bicycle and pedestrian access;
    16    (b)  potential  capital  projects  that  would allow for and/or expand
    17  bicycle and pedestrian access on bridges; and
    18    (c) a review of the authority's capital program plans in effect on and
    19  after January first, two thousand twenty-three, to determine the  impact
    20  of such projects on bicycle and pedestrian access and propose amendments
    21  and  modifications  to  such  capital program plans that would allow for
    22  and/or expand bicycle and pedestrian access on bridges.
    23    2. Within one year of the effective date of this section, the authori-
    24  ty shall submit a written report to the governor, temporary president of
    25  the senate, and speaker of the assembly, detailing the pedestrian bridge
    26  access feasibility study conducted pursuant to this section. Such report
    27  shall be made available to the public on the authority's website.
    28    § 6.  This act shall take effect immediately.