File #: Int 0647-2024    Version: * Name: Bus lane restrictions.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
On agenda: 3/7/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to bus lane restrictions
Sponsors: Kevin C. Riley, Althea V. Stevens, Yusef Salaam, Amanda Farías, Carmen N. De La Rosa, Nantasha M. Williams
Council Member Sponsors: 6
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Transportation (DOT) to post signs on each block of any street subject to bus lane restrictions. The signs would indicate the hours and days when bus lane restrictions are in effect. This bill would also require DOT to publish and maintain on its website the hours and days when bus lane restrictions are in effect for each affected street in the City.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 647, 2. Int. No. 647, 3. March 7, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 3-7-24

Int. No. 647

 

By Council Members Riley, Stevens, Salaam, Farías, De La Rosa and Williams

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to bus lane restrictions

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Subchapter 2 of chapter 1 of title 19 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 19-162.6 to read as follows:

§ 19-162.6 Bus lane restrictions. a. Signage. The department shall post signs indicating the days and hours during which bus lane restrictions are in effect for all streets that are subject to any such restrictions. The department shall post at least one such sign on every block that is subject to such a restriction and shall make all such signs clearly visible from the street.

b. Publication. The department shall publish and maintain on its website the days and hours during which bus lane restrictions are in effect for all streets that are subject to any such restrictions. Such publication shall at a minimum be searchable by street name.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 120 days after it becomes law.

 

 

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