Bill Text: NY S08099 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-03-20 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S08099 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S08099-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8099

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 20, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  RAMOS  -- 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 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. Subdivision (a) of section 1642 of the vehicle and  traffic
     2  law is amended by adding a new paragraph 28 to read as follows:
     3    28.  (a)  Establishment  of  scramble  crosswalks  leading to and from
     4  school buildings during times of student  arrival  and  dismissal.  Such
     5  scramble  crosswalks shall include, but not be limited to, the following
     6  requirements:
     7    (i) scramble crosswalks shall operate on weekdays  between  8:00  A.M.
     8  and 4:00 P.M.;
     9    (ii)  pedestrians  shall  wait until a pedestrian-control signal indi-
    10  cates a sign to walk;
    11    (iii) vehicles shall not turn right  at  the  intersection  while  the
    12  traffic signal indicates a red light;
    13    (iv) bicyclists may proceed with pedestrians when a pedestrian-control
    14  signal indicates a sign to walk, provided however, such bicyclists shall
    15  yield the right of way to all pedestrians in the intersection;
    16    (v)  bicyclists  may  proceed with vehicular traffic while the traffic
    17  signal indicates a green light; and
    18    (vi) signs shall be erected at  such  intersections  with  a  scramble
    19  crosswalk  indicating that no person shall enter the intersection unless
    20  a pedestrian-control signal indicates that all pedestrians may walk.
    21    (b) For the purposes of this paragraph, "scramble crosswalk"  means  a
    22  crosswalk  with  a  traffic signal which temporarily stops all vehicular
    23  traffic while a pedestrian-control signal indicates that all pedestrians
    24  at the intersection shall cross the intersection at the same time.
    25    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    26  have become a law.

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