File #: Int 0567-2007    Version: Name: Requiring the department of transportation to conduct studies of traffic accident locations
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted
Committee: Committee on Transportation
On agenda: 5/9/2007
Enactment date: 4/1/2008 Law number: 2008/011
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to pedestrian safety.
Sponsors: Vincent J. Gentile, John C. Liu, Joseph P. Addabbo, Jr., Gale A. Brewer, Leroy G. Comrie, Jr., Letitia James, G. Oliver Koppell, Miguel Martinez, Michael C. Nelson, James Sanders, Jr., Kendall Stewart, David I. Weprin, Robert Jackson, Daniel R. Garodnick, Helen Sears, Dennis P. Gallagher
Council Member Sponsors: 16
Attachments: 1. Int. No. 567 - 5/9/07, 2. Proposed Int. No. 567-A - 11/8/07, 3. Proposed Int. No. 567-A - 3/4/08, 4. Committee Report 11/8/07, 5. Hearing Testimony 11/8/07, 6. Hearing Transcript 11/8/07, 7. Committee Report 3/12/08, 8. Hearing Transcript 3/12/08, 9. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 3/12/08, 10. Fiscal Impact Statement, 11. Mayor's Message of Necessity, 12. Letter from Mayor, 13. Local Law
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4/1/2008AVincent J. Gentile City Council Recved from Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/1/2008AVincent J. Gentile Mayor Signed Into Law by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/1/2008AVincent J. Gentile Mayor Hearing Held by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/12/2008AVincent J. Gentile City Council Sent to Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/12/2008AVincent J. Gentile City Council Approved by CouncilPass Action details Meeting details Not available
3/12/2008*Vincent J. Gentile Committee on Transportation Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/12/2008*Vincent J. Gentile Committee on Transportation Amendment Proposed by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/12/2008*Vincent J. Gentile Committee on Transportation Amended by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/12/2008AVincent J. Gentile Committee on Transportation Approved by CommitteePass Action details Meeting details Not available
11/8/2007*Vincent J. Gentile Committee on Technology in Government Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/8/2007*Vincent J. Gentile Committee on Technology in Government Amendment Proposed by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/8/2007*Vincent J. Gentile Committee on Technology in Government Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/8/2007*Vincent J. Gentile Committee on Transportation Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/8/2007*Vincent J. Gentile Committee on Transportation Amendment Proposed by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/8/2007*Vincent J. Gentile Committee on Transportation Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
5/9/2007*Vincent J. Gentile City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
5/9/2007*Vincent J. Gentile City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 567-A

 

By Council Members Gentile, Liu, Addabbo Jr., Brewer, Comrie, James, Koppell, Martinez, Nelson, Sanders Jr., Stewart, Weprin, Jackson, Garodnick, Sears and Gallagher

 

A Local Law  to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to pedestrian safety.

 

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 19-180 to read as follows:

                     §19-180 Safety audits of crash locations involving pedestrians  a.  Within one hundred and eighty days of receiving access to New York state department of motor vehicles traffic crash data involving pedestrian injuries or fatalities for the previous calendar year, the department shall:

1.  Identify the twenty highest crash locations based upon a ranking of the total number of crashes involving pedestrians and selected proportionally by borough based upon the percentage of total crashes involving pedestrians in such borough; and

2. Inspect and conduct audits at such locations and, where warranted, make improvements or incorporate improvements into capital projects.

b.  Within thirty days of completing the inspections and audits required under paragraph 2 of subdivision a of this section, the department shall send a report noting such inspection and audit and summarizing its recommendations and steps to be taken, including a schedule to implement such recommendations, to the council member and community board in whose district the crash location is located.

c.  If any crash location appears on the department’s annual list of twenty highest crash locations involving pedestrians in two consecutive years, such location shall be removed from the annual list and replaced by the location with the next highest number of crashes involving pedestrians located within the same borough as the consecutively appearing location; provided that the department shall continue to monitor such crash data and/or make safety improvements at such removed location until such removed location is no longer one of the highest crash locations.

§ 2.  Title 19 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 19-181 to read as follows:

                     §19-181  Safety inspections at locations exhibiting a pattern of crashes involving pedestrians and/or bicyclists.  a.  Within ninety days of receiving access to New York state department of motor vehicles traffic crash data involving pedestrians and/or bicyclists, the department shall inspect every location with five or more injuries or fatalities involving pedestrians and/or bicyclists during the prior twelve month period.

                     b.  Within ninety days of notice of a traffic crash involving a fatality, the department shall conduct an inspection of the traffic crash location.

                     c.  The department shall act upon any inspection recommendations, if warranted.

                     d.  The department shall make the results of the inspections required under subdivisions a and b or any actions required by subdivision c of this section available upon request to the public.

 

                     §3.  Title 19 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 19-182 to read as follows:

                     §19-182 Comprehensive study of pedestrian fatalities and serious injuries.  a.  The department shall conduct a comprehensive study of all traffic crashes involving a pedestrian fatality or serious injury for the most recent five years where traffic crash data is available.  In such study, the department shall analyze the conditions and factors associated with each such traffic crash and identify common factors among the crashes, if any.  The department shall use such study to develop strategies to improve pedestrian safety, which may include modifying citywide traffic operations policy, developing pedestrian safety strategies geared towards specific users, prioritizing locations and/or types of roadways or intersections for safety improvements and making recommendations for improving safety at such locations.

                     b.  The comprehensive traffic study required under subdivision a of this section shall be submitted to the mayor and council by the thirtieth day of august, two thousand and nine.  The plans, including a schedule for implementing strategies for improving pedestrian safety generated by such study, shall be submitted to the mayor and council by the thirtieth day of november, two thousand and nine.

                     §4.  This local law shall take effect thirty days after it is enacted into law, except for the provisions of section 2, which shall take effect on January 1, 2009.

 

 

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