File #: Int 0666-1999    Version: * Name: Pedestrians safety
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Transportation
On agenda: 12/7/1999
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to enhancing the safety of pedestrians and the clear travel of motorists.
Sponsors: Gifford Miller, Michael C. Nelson, Tracy L. Boyland, June M. Eisland, Helen M. Marshall, Julia Harrison, Lloyd Henry, Karen Koslowitz, Stanley E. Michels, Jerome X. O'Donovan, Morton Povman, Christine C. Quinn
Council Member Sponsors: 12
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Int. No. 666

 

By Council Members Miller, Nelson, Boyland, Eisland and Marshall; also Council Members Harrison, Henry, Koslowitz, Michels, O’Donovan, Povman and Quinn-read and referred to the Committee on Transportation.

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to enhancing the safety of pedestrians and the clear travel of motorists.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

                     Section one. Subchapter 3 of  chapter 1 of title 19 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding thereto a new section 19-180 to read as follows:

§19-180. Installation of exclusive pedestrian phases. a. For purposes of this section, “exclusive pedestrian phase” shall mean when all vehicular traffic is stopped and pedestrians are allowed to cross the intersection in any direction including diagonally.

1.Within six months of the effective date of this local law, the commissioner shall install exclusive pedestrian phase traffic signals at all pedestrian intersections,  except at those intersections where the commissioner determines, after a study, that installation of an exclusive pedestrian phase traffic signal would be adverse to  pedestrian safety.

                     §2. This local law shall take effect immediately after its enactment into law.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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