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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3/10/08 - 3:45pm