File #: Int 0409-2026    Version: Name: Bus lane restrictions.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted (Mayor's Desk for Signature)
Committee: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
On agenda: 1/29/2026
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to bus lane restrictions
Sponsors: Kevin C. Riley, Farah N. Louis, Phil Wong , Chris Banks, Ty Hankerson, Shaun Abreu, Chi A. Ossé, Mercedes Narcisse, Selvena N. Brooks-Powers, Sandra Ung, Althea V. Stevens, Virginia Maloney , Lynn C. Schulman, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Linda Lee, Yusef Salaam, Elsie Encarnación
Council Member Sponsors: 17
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.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 409-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 409, 3. Int. No. 409, 4. Committee Report 2/9/26, 5. Hearing Testimony 2/9/26, 6. Hearing Transcript 2/9/26, 7. Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council, 8. January 29, 2026 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 9. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 1-29-26, 10. Proposed Int. No. 409-A - 3/3/26, 11. Committee Report 3/10/26, 12. Proposed Int. No. 409-A - Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council, 13. Committee Report - Stated Meeting, 14. March 10, 2026 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 15. Int. No. 409-A (FINAL)
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3/10/2026AKevin C. Riley City Council Sent to Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
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3/10/2026*Kevin C. Riley Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/10/2026*Kevin C. Riley Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Amendment Proposed by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/10/2026*Kevin C. Riley Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Amended by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/10/2026AKevin C. Riley Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Approved by CommitteePass Action details Meeting details Not available
2/9/2026*Kevin C. Riley Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
2/9/2026*Kevin C. Riley Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
1/29/2026*Kevin C. Riley City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
1/29/2026*Kevin C. Riley City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 409-A

 

By Council Members Riley, Louis, Wong, Banks, Hankerson, Abreu, Ossé, Narcisse, Brooks-Powers, Ung, Stevens, Maloney, Schulman, Gutiérrez, Lee, Salaam and Encarnación

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to bus lane restrictions

 

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. The department shall install at least 1 sign on each block where a bus lane restriction is in effect, provided that the department shall not be required to install such a sign if: (i) the bus lane restriction at such block is in effect 24 hours a day, 7 days a week; or (ii) the department determines in its professional engineering judgment that such installation would be impracticable based on block length or other site-specific considerations. Each such sign shall indicate the days and hours of such bus lane restriction, and shall be clearly visible to drivers.

b. The department shall post on its website the days and hours during which each bus lane restriction is in effect. The information in such posting shall be searchable by street name.

c. Nothing in this section shall be deemed to affect the validity of a notice of violation or notice of liability issued for the failure of an operator of any vehicle to comply with a bus lane restriction.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 240 days after it becomes law.

 

 

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