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Int 1763-2019

Motor vehicles overtaking bicycles.

IntroductionFiledCommittee on Transportationintroduced 2019-10-17

Filed — closed without being enacted.

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Agenda: 2019-10-17Passed: 2021-12-31

Summary

This bill would require drivers of motor vehicles to maintain a minimum distance of three feet when overtaking a bicycle, and provide for a traffic violation for a driver that makes contact with a bicyclist while failing to exercise due care and failing to maintain the three foot distance.

Committee on TransportationMass Transportation Agencies and facilities, Department of Transportation and New York City Transit Authority.

How it compares

34% of similar bills passed

17 passed · 33 died

This bill: 805 days in committee

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Sponsors (5)

Lifecycle

IntroducedIntroduced by Council
2019-10-17 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
2019-10-17 · City Council
HeardHearing Held by Committee
2019-10-24 · Committee on Transportation
HeldLaid Over by Committee
2019-10-24 · Committee on Transportation
HeardHearing Held by Committee
2019-10-24 · Committee on Public Safety
HeldLaid Over by Committee
2019-10-24 · Committee on Public Safety
ClosedFiled (End of Session)
2021-12-31 · City Council

Heard at (2)

Committee on Public Safety · 2019-10-24 · 10:00 AM · Council Chambers - City Hall
City Council · 2019-10-17 · 1:30 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall

Attachments (10)

Full text
Be it enacted by the Council as follows: Section 1. Subchapter 3 of chapter 1 of title 19 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 19-190.1 to read as follows: � 19-190.1 Vehicles overtaking bicycles. a. The driver of a motor vehicle overtaking a bicycle proceeding on the same side of a street shall leave a distance of not less than three feet between the motor vehicle and the bicycle and shall maintain such distance until such vehicle has passed the bicycle. b. A driver of a motor vehicle who makes contact with a bicycle or bicyclist while failing to exercise due care and violating subdivision a of this section shall be guilty of a traffic infraction. � 2. This local law takes effect 120 days after it becomes law, except that the department shall take such measures as are necessary for the implementation of this local law, including the promulgation of rules, before such date. AS/EL LS # 4622 12/1/2021 5:00PM 1 1