File #: Int 0745-2024    Version: Name: Requiring the department of transportation to provide information about bicycle and other micromobility device activity.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted
Committee: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
On agenda: 4/11/2024
Enactment date: 9/14/2024 Law number: 2024/088
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of transportation to provide information about bicycle and other micromobility device activity
Sponsors: Amanda Farías, Selvena N. Brooks-Powers, Lincoln Restler, Crystal Hudson, Lynn C. Schulman, Julie Won, Carlina Rivera , Tiffany Cabán, Eric Dinowitz, Gale A. Brewer, Shahana K. Hanif, Oswald Feliz
Council Member Sponsors: 12
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Transportation (DOT) to publish on its website information about current bicycle and micromobility ridership activity in the City, including data from automated counters and other relevant sources. DOT would be required to update the website monthly when available, and at least annually. DOT would also be required to include a description of its projects to enhance the safety and movement of bicycles and other micromobility devices on the streets and bridges under its jurisdiction, and to study bicycle use data, crash data, and other data to determine such projects.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 745-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 745, 3. Int. No. 745, 4. April 11, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 4-11-24, 6. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - April 11, 2024, 7. Committee Report 6/25/24, 8. Hearing Testimony 6/25/24, 9. Hearing Transcript 6/25/24, 10. Proposed Int. No. 745-A - 8/14/24, 11. Committee Report 8/15/24, 12. Hearing Transcript 8/15/24, 13. Committee Report - Stated Meeting 8/15/24, 14. August 15, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 15. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 8-15-24, 16. Int. No. 745-A (FINAL), 17. Fiscal Impact Statement, 18. Legislative Documents - Letter to the Mayor, 19. Local Law 88
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Int. No. 745-A

 

By Council Members Farías, Brooks-Powers, Restler, Hudson, Schulman, Won, Rivera, Cabán, Dinowitz, Brewer, Hanif and Feliz

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of transportation to provide information about bicycle and other micromobility device activity

 

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 19-187 to read as follows:

§ 19-187 Information on bicycle and other micromobility device activity. a. Definitions. As used in this section, the term “micromobility device” means a device intended for personal transportation within the city of New York that is not a motor vehicle, as such term is defined in section 125 of the vehicle and traffic law. The term “micromobility device” includes, but is not limited to, bicycles, electric bicycles, scooters, and electric scooters.

b. Webpage. 1. No later than February 1, 2025, the department shall publish a page on its website providing information about current bicycle and other micromobility device ridership as well as historical trends relating to such ridership. The department shall include on such page data from automated counters as well as data from other relevant sources. The department shall update such page monthly if updated data is available, or within a reasonable amount of time after such data is available, and shall update such page no less frequently than annually.

2. The department shall include, or provide a link on such page to, a description of any projects of the department to enhance the safety and movement of bicycles and other micromobility devices on the streets and bridges under the jurisdiction of the department. The department shall study and consider bicycle crash data, bicycle use data, and any other data the department deems relevant and appropriate to determine the projects described on such page, and shall explain how such projects respond to the needs of users of bicycles and other micromobility devices. The department shall include such project descriptions as part of the update required to be submitted by paragraph 2 of subdivision d of section 19-199.1.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 30 days after it becomes law.

 

Session 13

CoJM/MC

LS # 8969

8/7/24 7:04pm

 

Session 12

KS

LS # 8969

5/2/22 4:30 PM