Legislation Details

File #: Int 0307-2010    Version: * Name: Place a stop sign/traffic control signal at each end of every pedestrian overpass in NYC.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Transportation
On agenda: 7/29/2010
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the placement of a stop sign or traffic control signal at each end of every pedestrian overpass in the city.
Sponsors: G. Oliver Koppell, Letitia James, Annabel Palma, Fernando Cabrera , Peter A. Koo
Council Member Sponsors: 5
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/31/2013*G. Oliver Koppell City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
7/29/2010*G. Oliver Koppell City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
7/29/2010*G. Oliver Koppell City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
Int. No. 307
 
By Council Members Koppell, James, Palma, Cabrera and Koo
 
 
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the placement of a stop sign or traffic control signal at each end of every pedestrian overpass in the city.
 
 
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
 
      Section 1.  Subchapter three of chapter one of title nineteen 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  Pedestrian overpasses.  All pedestrian walkways situated above roadways in the city of New York shall have stop signs or traffic control signals at each end of such overpass in order to control motor vehicle traffic on streets with which they intersect.  The department shall evaluate and install at such locations either a stop sign or a traffic control signal, whichever the department deems to be appropriate, based upon the volume of relevant motor vehicle traffic and the sight-lines of persons emerging from any such overpass.
      §2.  This local law shall take effect one hundred eighty days after it is enacted into law.
 
 
 
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