Bill Text: NY A06761 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires the New York state department of transportation to conduct a study to evaluate the configuration and signage of entrance and exit ramps on the Southern State Parkway in Nassau and Suffolk counties to determine whether adequate safety measures exist to prevent collisions and the instance of wrong way drivers.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2018-12-07 - signed chap.361 [A06761 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A06761-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6761--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     March 17, 2017
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        Introduced  by M. of A. SOLAGES -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Transportation -- recommitted to the Committee  on  Transporta-
          tion  in  accordance  with  Assembly  Rule  3,  sec.  2  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
        AN ACT to require the New York state  department  of  transportation  to
          conduct  a study to evaluate the configuration and signage of entrance
          and exit ramps on the Southern State Parkway  in  Nassau  and  Suffolk
          counties  to  determine  whether  adequate  safety  measures  exist to
          prevent collisions and the instance of wrong way drivers
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The  department  of transportation shall, in consultation
     2  with the department of motor vehicles,  the  governor's  traffic  safety
     3  committee,  the  division  of state police, local police agencies, local
     4  governments, and any other department, division, board, bureau,  commis-
     5  sion,  agency or public authority of the state or any political subdivi-
     6  sion thereof deemed necessary by  the  commissioner  of  transportation,
     7  conduct  a  study  to evaluate the configuration and signage of entrance
     8  and exit ramps on the Southern State Parkway in Nassau and Suffolk coun-
     9  ties to review incidents of collisions and wrong  way  driving  on  such
    10  Parkway  and to determine the feasibility of improvements to reduce such
    11  collisions and instances of wrong way driving. Such study shall include,
    12  but not be limited  to,  design  and  safety  of  the  configuration  of
    13  entrance  and  exit  ramps  and  the  feasibility of implementing design
    14  changes to increase safety and reduce the likelihood of  collisions  and
    15  wrong way driving; the design and level of safety of the signage located
    16  at entrance and exit ramps of such Parkway and the feasibility of imple-
    17  menting  signage  design  changes  to  increase  the  visibility of such
    18  signage to drivers and reduce the likelihood of collisions and wrong way
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  driving; and federal funding available for such highway safety  improve-
     2  ment projects.
     3    §  2. The commissioner of transportation shall submit a report of such
     4  study with detailed recommendations and findings to  the  governor,  the
     5  temporary  president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, and the
     6  chairs of the senate and assembly transportation committees  within  two
     7  years of the effective date of this act.
     8    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.