Bill Text: NY A08272 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires that vehicles yield the right of way to multi-use trails that cross roadways.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to transportation [A08272 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08272-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8272

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    November 27, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. FAHY -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation  to  clarifying
          that  all  trail  users,  including  bicyclists,  have right of way in
          crosswalks wherever the multi-use trail crosses a roadway

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

     1    Section  1. Section 1151 of the vehicle and traffic law, is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision (d) to read as follows:
     3    (d) Wherever a multi-use trail crosses  a  roadway,  a  vehicle  shall
     4  yield the right of way to any user of such multi-use trail crossing such
     5  roadway  within  a  crosswalk on such roadway upon which such vehicle is
     6  traveling. Any user of a multi-use trail, including a  bicyclist,  shall
     7  be  subject  to  the  same limitations placed on pedestrians pursuant to
     8  this section for the purposes of crossing a roadway in a crosswalk  that
     9  is contiguous to such multi-use trail. For the purposes of this subdivi-
    10  sion, the term "multi-use trail" shall mean a trail established pursuant
    11  to  section twenty-two of the highway law by the department of transpor-
    12  tation or established by the office of parks,  recreation  and  historic
    13  preservation, the department of environmental conservation, the New York
    14  State  Canal Corporation, the Hudson River Valley Greenway, or any other
    15  state agency or an affiliate or subsidiary of a state agency, or a coun-
    16  ty, city, town, village, or private entity for recreation and  transpor-
    17  tation  use  by pedestrians, bicyclists, and/or others utilizing non-mo-
    18  torized transport.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13552-02-3