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Int 0542-2024

Requiring that traffic study determinations be issued no later than 60 days from the date a traffic control device is requested by a city council member or community board.

IntroductionFiledCommittee on Transportation and Infrastructureintroduced 2024-03-07

Filed — closed without being enacted.

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Agenda: 2024-03-07Passed: 2025-12-31

Summary

This bill would require the Department of Transportation (DOT) to issue a traffic study determination within 60 days of a request by a city council member or a community board for a traffic control device. Under the current law, council members and community boards whose requests for a traffic control device are denied are entitled to certain supporting documents underlying the determination but not to any particular timeline for completion of the study and determination. This amendment will speed up the current process overall by requiring this category of determinations to be issued within 60 days.

Committee on Transportation and InfrastructureMass transportation agencies and facilities, Taxi and Limousine Commission, Department of Transportation and New York City Transit Authority, and the Department of Design and Construction and matters related to infrastructure projects within New York City.

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10 passed · 40 died

This bill: 664 days in committee

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Sponsors (6)

Lifecycle

IntroducedIntroduced by Council
2024-03-07 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
2024-03-07 · City Council
HeardHearing Held by Committee
2024-06-25 · Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
HeldLaid Over by Committee
2024-06-25 · Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
ClosedFiled (End of Session)
2025-12-31 · City Council

Heard at (3)

Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure · 2024-06-25 · 1:00 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure · 2024-06-10 · 1:00 PM · Committee Room - City Hall
City Council · 2024-03-07 · 1:30 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall

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Full text
Be it enacted by the Council as follows: Section 1. Section 19-185 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 14 for the year 2011, is amended to read as follows: � 19-185 Traffic study determinations. The department shall issue a traffic study determination within 60 days of the date a council member or community board submits a request for a traffic control device regulated by the manual on uniform traffic control devices. The department shall include with any determination denying [a]such request [by a community board or council member for a traffic control device regulated by the manual on uniform traffic control devices,] a summary of the traffic control device warrants, along with the date and time that the department performed its traffic analysis and the time period of any crash data considered by the department for such warrants. Such denial shall also include the following language: "A summary of the studies and reports that led to this determination will be provided upon request." Upon such request by the community board or council member after receiving the denial the department shall provide a summary of the traffic studies and/or reports performed by the department. � 2. This local law takes effect 120 days after it becomes law. Session 13 LS 588 1/11/2024 Session 12 IB LS 588 3/28/2022 6:30pm 2 2