Bill Text: NY S06170 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Specifies additional routes where there is an exemption on the maximum dimensions of certain vehicles proceeding to and from the New York state thruway.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S06170 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S06170-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6170 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 21, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MAY -- (at request of the Thruway Authority) -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the maximum dimension of certain vehicles proceeding to and from the New York state thruway The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 16 of section 385 of the vehicle and traffic 2 law is amended by adding fifteen new paragraphs (v), (w), (x), (y), (z), 3 (aa), (bb), (cc), (dd), (ee), (ff), (gg), (hh), (ii) and (jj) to read as 4 follows: 5 (v) Within a distance of approximately one mile from the New York 6 state thruway interchange 24 traveling along interstate route 90 to 7 interchange 2 Washington avenue, and to Washington avenue traveling 8 westbound to Fuller road in a northerly direction to interstate route 90 9 traveling to interchange 24 of the New York state thruway, where the 10 commissioner of transportation determines that the vehicle or combina- 11 tion of vehicles could operate safely along the designated route and 12 that no applicable federal law, regulation or other requirement prohib- 13 its the operation of such vehicle or combination of vehicles on such 14 route. 15 (w) Within a distance of approximately .25 miles from the New York 16 state thruway interchange 25A, traveling in a westbound direction along 17 interstate route 88 to exit 25 to route 7, and to a left on Becker road 18 traveling in a southbound direction on Becker road for approximately .2 19 miles to the New York state thruway interchange 25A tandem lot access 20 road, where the commissioner of transportation determines that the vehi- 21 cle or combination of vehicles could operate safely along the designated 22 route and that no applicable federal law, regulation or other require- EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09326-03-9S. 6170 2 1 ment prohibits the operation of such vehicle or combination of vehicles 2 on such route. 3 (x) Within a distance of approximately 2.2 miles from the New York 4 state thruway interchange 34A traveling in a southbound direction along 5 interstate route 481 to interstate 481 exit 5E Kirkville road east along 6 state route 53 Kirkville road in an eastbound direction to interstate 7 route 481 traveling northbound to exit 6 to interchange 34A of the New 8 York state thruway, where the commissioner of transportation determines 9 that the vehicle or combination of vehicles could operate safely along 10 the designated route and that no applicable federal law, regulation or 11 other requirement prohibits the operation of such vehicle or combination 12 of vehicles on such route. 13 (y) Within a distance of approximately .8 miles from the New York 14 state thruway interchange 35, traveling approximately two hundred feet 15 around Carrier circle to traveling northbound on Thompson road for 16 approximately one thousand feet, or traveling southbound on Thompson 17 road approximately one hundred feet, to traveling westbound on Tarbell 18 road for approximately .5 miles to reenter at the Dewitt service area of 19 the New York state thruway, where the commissioner of transportation 20 determines that the vehicle or combination of vehicles could operate 21 safely along the designated route and that no applicable federal law, 22 regulation or other requirement prohibits the operation of such vehicle 23 or combination of vehicles on such route. 24 (z) Within a distance of approximately one mile from the New York 25 state thruway interchange 36 traveling in a southbound direction on 26 interstate 81 to interstate 81 exit 25 7th North street, and traveling 27 eastbound on 7th North street to interstate 81 traveling in a northbound 28 direction to interchange 36 of the New York state thruway, where the 29 commissioner of transportation determines that the vehicle or combina- 30 tion of vehicles could operate safely along the designated route and 31 that no applicable federal law, regulation or other requirement prohib- 32 its the operation of such vehicle or combination of vehicles on such 33 route. 34 (aa) Within a distance of approximately .6 miles from the New York 35 state thruway interchange 39 traveling eastbound on interstate 690 to 36 interstate 690 exit 2 Jones road in a northbound direction to state 37 route 690 north to interchange 39 of the New York state thruway, where 38 the commissioner of transportation determines that the vehicle or combi- 39 nation of vehicles could operate safely along the designated route and 40 that no applicable federal law, regulation or other requirement prohib- 41 its the operation of such vehicle or combination of vehicles on such 42 route. 43 (bb) Within a distance of approximately .5 miles from the New York 44 state thruway interchange 45, traveling on interstate 490 to interstate 45 490 exit 29, in a south westerly direction along New York state route 96 46 to the point where New York state route 96 intersects with the entrance 47 ramp to the New York state thruway interchange 45, and for approximately 48 .2 miles along this entrance ramp to the New York state thruway inter- 49 change 45, where the commissioner of transportation determines that the 50 vehicle or combination of vehicles could operate safely along the desig- 51 nated route and that no applicable federal law, regulation or other 52 requirement prohibits the operation of such vehicle or combination of 53 vehicles on such route. 54 (cc) Within a distance of approximately .6 miles from the New York 55 state thruway interchange 46, traveling in a northeasterly direction on 56 the ramp from the New York state thruway interchange 46 to interstateS. 6170 3 1 390 north exit to New York state route 253, Lehigh Station road, for a 2 distance of approximately .5 miles along the ramp from interstate 390 3 north exit to New York state route 253, Lehigh Station road, for a 4 distance of approximately .6 miles in a westerly direction along New 5 York state route 253, Lehigh Station road, to the intersection of New 6 York state route 253 with New York state route 15, then for a distance 7 of approximately .6 miles in a southerly direction along New York state 8 route 15, to the New York state thruway interchange 46 maintenance 9 facility entrance, where the commissioner of transportation determines 10 that the vehicle or combination of vehicles could operate safely along 11 the designated route and that no applicable federal law, regulation or 12 other requirement prohibits the operation of such vehicle or combination 13 of vehicles on such route. 14 (dd) Within a distance of approximately .3 miles from the New York 15 state thruway interchange 47, traveling on interstate 490 to interstate 16 490 exit 1, to a distance of approximately .2 miles along the ramp from 17 interstate 490 exit 1 to Valance road, for a distance of approximately 18 .4 miles in a south westerly direction along Valance road to the 19 entrance ramp of the New York state thruway interchange 47, where the 20 commissioner of transportation determines that the vehicle or combina- 21 tion of vehicles could operate safely along the designated route and 22 that no applicable federal law, regulation or other requirement prohib- 23 its the operation of such vehicle or combination of vehicles on such 24 route. 25 (ee) Within a distance of approximately .2 miles in a north westerly 26 direction from the New York state thruway interchange 61 exit to Short- 27 man road, for a distance of approximately .4 miles in a south easterly 28 direction along Shortman road to the interstate 90 eastbound entrance 29 ramp of the New York state thruway interchange 61, where the commission- 30 er of transportation determines that the vehicle or combination of vehi- 31 cles could operate safely along the designated route and that no appli- 32 cable federal law, regulation or other requirement prohibits the 33 operation of such vehicle or combination of vehicles on such route. 34 (ff) Within a distance of approximately .6 miles from the New York 35 state thruway interchange 19, traveling in a westbound direction along 36 route 28 to route 209, and traveling in a southbound direction on route 37 209 for approximately .1 miles to route 28, and traveling in an east- 38 bound direction on route 28 for approximately .8 miles to the New York 39 state thruway interchange 19, where the commissioner of transportation 40 determines that the vehicle or combination of vehicles could operate 41 safely along the designated route and that no applicable federal law, 42 regulation or other requirement prohibits the operation of such vehicle 43 or combination of vehicles on such route. 44 (gg) Within a distance of approximately .5 miles from the New York 45 state thruway interchange 31, traveling onto the ramp to Genesee street 46 south for approximately twenty-eight hundred feet to Genesee street 47 north for approximately two hundred seventy-five feet to interchange 31 48 of the New York state thruway, where the commissioner of transportation 49 determines that the vehicle or combination of vehicles could operate 50 safely along the designated route and that no applicable federal law, 51 regulation or other requirement prohibits the operation of such vehicle 52 or combination of vehicles on such route. 53 (hh) Within a distance of approximately .2 miles from the New York 54 state thruway interchange 33 traveling westbound on state route 365 for 55 approximately nine hundred feet to interchange 33 of the New York state 56 thruway, where the commissioner of transportation determines that theS. 6170 4 1 vehicle or combination of vehicles could operate safely along the desig- 2 nated route and that no applicable federal law, regulation or other 3 requirement prohibits the operation of such vehicle or combination of 4 vehicles on such route. 5 (ii) Within a distance of approximately .15 miles from the New York 6 state thruway interchange 42 traveling on state route 14 for approxi- 7 mately seven hundred fifty feet for travel to and from the thruway 8 tandem lot and interchange 42, where the commissioner of transportation 9 determines that the vehicle or combination of vehicles could operate 10 safely along the designated route and that no applicable federal law, 11 regulation, or other requirement prohibits the operation of such vehicle 12 or combination of vehicles on such route. 13 (jj) Within a distance of approximately 0.1 miles from the New York 14 state interchange 43 traveling on state route 21 for approximately six 15 hundred feet for travel to and from the thruway tandem lot and inter- 16 change 43, where the commissioner of transportation determines that the 17 vehicle or combination of vehicles could operate safely along the desig- 18 nated route and that no applicable federal law, regulation or other 19 requirement prohibits the operation of such vehicle or combination of 20 vehicles on such route. 21 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
