File #: Int 0853-2024    Version: * Name: Creating borough-based traffic request response teams
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
On agenda: 4/18/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to creating borough-based traffic request response teams
Sponsors: Rafael Salamanca, Jr., Farah N. Louis, Amanda Farías
Council Member Sponsors: 3
Summary: This bill would require the New York City Department of Transportation to assign staff to respond to traffic requests in each borough. The number of staff members for each borough would be proportionate to the volume of traffic requests in the borough. The traffic request response staff members would be responsible for responding to traffic requests in their assigned borough within three months of submission of the request, if practicable.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 853, 2. Int. No. 853, 3. April 18, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 4-18-24, 5. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - April 18, 2024

Int. No. 853

 

By Council Members Salamanca Jr., Louis and Farías

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to creating borough-based traffic request response teams

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 1 of title 19 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 19-159.6 to read as follows:

§ 19-159.6 Traffic request response teams. a. Definitions. For purposes of this section, the term “traffic request” means a request submitted to the department relating to the review of vehicular traffic or a traffic calming device, as defined in section 19-193, or an alteration to a street, as defined in section 1-112, or a sidewalk, as defined in section 19-101.

b. The commissioner shall assign department staff to each borough tasked with responding to traffic requests in such borough, provided that the staffing level of each borough’s traffic request response staff shall be proportionate to the volume of traffic requests in such borough. Traffic request response staff shall respond to traffic requests within three months of submission to the extent practicable.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

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