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Int 0647-2024

Bus lane restrictions.

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 post signs on each block of any street subject to bus lane restrictions. The signs would indicate the hours and days when bus lane restrictions are in effect. This bill would also require DOT to publish and maintain on its website the hours and days when bus lane restrictions are in effect for each affected street in the City.

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.

How it compares

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4 passed · 46 died

This bill: 664 days in committee

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Sponsors (11)

Lifecycle

IntroducedIntroduced by Council
2024-03-07 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
2024-03-07 · City Council
HeardHearing Held by Committee
2025-11-13 · Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
HeldLaid Over by Committee
2025-11-13 · Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
ClosedFiled (End of Session)
2025-12-31 · City Council

Heard at (2)

Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure · 2025-11-13 · 10:00 AM · 250 Broadway - 8th Floor - Hearing Room 2
City Council · 2024-03-07 · 1:30 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall

Attachments (10)

Full text
Be it enacted by the Council as follows: Section 1. Subchapter 2 of chapter 1 of title 19 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 19-162.6 to read as follows: � 19-162.6 Bus lane restrictions. a. Signage. The department shall post signs indicating the days and hours during which bus lane restrictions are in effect for all streets that are subject to any such restrictions. The department shall post at least one such sign on every block that is subject to such a restriction and shall make all such signs clearly visible from the street. b. Publication. The department shall publish and maintain on its website the days and hours during which bus lane restrictions are in effect for all streets that are subject to any such restrictions. Such publication shall at a minimum be searchable by street name. � 2. This local law takes effect 120 days after it becomes law. Session 13 LS 8656 1/18/24 Session 12 BJR LS 8656 4/12/22 1/22/21 1 1