Bill Text: NY A05876 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates a New York state route 878, Nassau Expressway study to evaluate the costs of completing the construction of state route 878 in Nassau and Queens counties; makes related provisions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to transportation [A05876 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05876-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5876

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 23, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. E. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Transportation

        AN  ACT to amend the transportation law, in relation to a New York state
          route 878, Nassau Expressway study; and providing for  the  repeal  of
          such provisions upon expiration thereof

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The transportation law is amended by adding a  new  section
     2  23 to read as follows:
     3    §  23.  New  York  state  route  878,  Nassau Expressway study. 1. The
     4  department, in consultation with the department of motor  vehicles,  the
     5  New York city department of transportation, the governor's traffic safe-
     6  ty  committee,  local  police  agencies,  the  local senate and assembly
     7  representatives, local transportation  entities  in  Nassau  and  Queens
     8  counties,  local  government stakeholders, and any other agency or group
     9  the department deems necessary to enlist the aid  of,  shall  conduct  a
    10  study  to  evaluate  the  costs  of completing the construction of state
    11  route 878 in Nassau and Queens counties. Such study shall  include,  but
    12  not  be  limited  to,  study  and evaluation of the original  plans from
    13  circa nineteen hundred forty and studies of New York city arterial coor-
    14  dinator Robert Moses, the  nineteen  hundred  fifty-nine  department  of
    15  transportation  Nassau  County  Master  Plan,  the  two  thousand twelve
    16  department of transportation scoping  report  of  the  Southeast  Queens
    17  Transportation Study, design and safety of the configuration and signage
    18  of entrance and exit ramps; the estimated total cost of the project; the
    19  estimated  duration of the project; the impact construction will have on
    20  local traffic patterns; and federal funding available for highway safety
    21  improvement projects. The department is authorized to conduct any  hear-
    22  ings it deems necessary to accomplish the purposes of this section.
    23    2.  The commissioner shall issue a report to the governor, the members
    24  of the assembly and senate representing districts in Nassau  and  Queens

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09803-03-3
        A. 5876                             2

     1  counties, the Nassau county executive, the Queens borough president, and
     2  the Nassau county legislature with detailed recommendations and findings
     3  within one year of the effective date of this section.
     4    §  2.  This  act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
     5  deemed repealed one year and six months after such effective date.