File #: Int 0725-2008    Version: * Name: Adjusting traffic signal timing in areas with high concentrations of seniors.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Transportation
On agenda: 3/12/2008
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to adjusting traffic signal timing in areas with high concentrations of seniors.
Sponsors: Maria Del Carmen Arroyo, John C. Liu, Tony Avella, Gale A. Brewer, Leroy G. Comrie, Jr., Inez E. Dickens, Mathieu Eugene, Vincent J. Gentile, Letitia James, Melinda R. Katz, G. Oliver Koppell, Michael C. Nelson, Kendall Stewart, James Vacca, David I. Weprin, Thomas White, Jr., Alan J. Gerson
Council Member Sponsors: 17
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12/31/2009*Maria Del Carmen Arroyo City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/12/2008*Maria Del Carmen Arroyo City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/12/2008*Maria Del Carmen Arroyo City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 725

 

By Council Members Arroyo, Liu, Avella, Brewer, Comrie, Dickens, Eugene, Gentile, James, Katz, Koppell, Nelson, Stewart, Vacca, Weprin, White Jr. and Gerson

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to adjusting traffic signal timing in areas with high concentrations of seniors.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

                     Section 1.  Title 19 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 19-183 to read as follows:

                     §19-183 Adjusting pedestrian traffic signal timing.  The department shall conduct traffic studies of all intersections where it determines, working in conjunction with the department for the aging, that twenty percent or more of the pedestrians using such intersections are seniors.  Such traffic studies shall be completed within three hundred and sixty-five days from the effective date of the local law that added this section.  Within seven calendar days following completion of the traffic studies, the department shall, where warranted in the discretion of the commissioner based upon the findings of such studies, adjust the timing of traffic signals at such intersections to provide pedestrians with longer time intervals to cross such intersections between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.

                     §2.  This local law shall take effect immediately.

 

 

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