Bill Text: NY S02515 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Establishes scramble crosswalks leading to and from school buildings during times of student arrival and dismissal to ensure all vehicular traffic is stopped while pedestrians are crossing in the same intersection.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-02-28 - ADVANCED TO THIRD READING [S02515 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S02515-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2515--C 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 23, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sens. RAMOS, ADDABBO, COMRIE, GOUNARDES, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, LIU, MAY, PARKER, SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- reported favorably from said commit- tee, ordered to first and second report, ordered to a third reading, passed by Senate and delivered to the Assembly, recalled, vote recon- sidered, restored to third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading -- recommitted to the Committee on Transportation in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to establishing scramble crosswalks leading to and from school buildings during times of student arrival and dismissal The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new 2 section 1640-s to read as follows: 3 § 1640-s. Scramble crosswalks in cities with a population of one 4 million or more. 1. There shall be scramble crosswalks in cities with a 5 population of one million or more leading to and from school buildings 6 during times of student arrival and dismissal. Such scramble crosswalks 7 shall include, but not be limited to, the following requirements: 8 (a) scramble crosswalks shall operate on weekdays between 8:00 A.M. 9 and 4:00 P.M.; 10 (b) pedestrians shall wait until a pedestrian-control signal indicates 11 a sign to walk; 12 (c) vehicles shall not turn right at the intersection while the traf- 13 fic signal indicates a red light; EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06074-07-3S. 2515--C 2 1 (d) bicyclists may proceed with pedestrians when a pedestrian-control 2 signal indicates a sign to walk, provided however, such bicyclists shall 3 yield the right of way to all pedestrians in the intersection; 4 (e) bicyclists may proceed with vehicular traffic while the traffic 5 signal indicates a green light; and 6 (f) signs shall be erected at such intersections with a scramble 7 crosswalk indicating that no person shall enter the intersection unless 8 a pedestrian-control signal indicates that all pedestrians may walk. 9 2. For the purposes of this section, "scramble crosswalk" means a 10 crosswalk with a traffic signal which temporarily stops all vehicular 11 traffic while a pedestrian-control signal indicates that all pedestrians 12 at the intersection shall cross the intersection at the same time. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 14 have become a law.
