File #: Int 0860-2022    Version: * Name: Traffic studies conducted by the department of transportation.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
On agenda: 12/21/2022
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of New York, in relation to traffic studies conducted by the department of transportation
Sponsors: Ari Kagan
Council Member Sponsors: 1
Summary: This bill would codify the definition of a “traffic study” and the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) process of approving or denying a traffic study request. This bill would require DOT to perform a requested traffic study, if one had not been performed within 18 months. If a traffic study was performed within 18 months, DOT may deny the request but only if the traffic conditions remain materially the same. If a traffic study is denied, upon request, DOT would be required to provide a written statement stating that traffic conditions are the same, and provide a copy of previous traffic studies and their summaries within 2 weeks of the request being made.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 860, 2. Int. No. 860, 3. December 21, 2022 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 12-21-22, 5. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - December 21, 2022

Int. No. 860

 

By Council Member Kagan

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of New York, in relation to traffic studies conducted by the department of transportation

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Section 19-185 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 14 for the year 2011, is amended to read as follows:

§ 19-185 Traffic study determinations.  a. Definition. As used in this section, the term “traffic study” means any study conducted by the department on traffic control devices that are regulated by the manual on uniform traffic control devices or on the proposed installation of such devices.

b. No later than 14 days after receiving a request from a council member or community board for a traffic study, the department shall conduct a traffic study if no such study has been conducted in connection with the same traffic control devices within 18 months preceding such request.

c. If the department has conducted a traffic study within the 18 months preceding such request, the department shall compare the traffic conditions at the time of the request to the traffic conditions during the last traffic study, and if there have been material changes, the department shall conduct a new traffic study. If there have been no material changes, the department shall in every such case provide a written statement to the requestor stating that the conditions for the requested traffic study have not materially changed from the previously conducted traffic study.

d. The department shall include with any determination denying a request by a community board or council member for a traffic study or traffic control device regulated by the manual on uniform traffic control devices, a summary of the traffic control device warrants, along with the data and time that the department performed its traffic analysis and the time period of any crash data considered by the department for such warrants. Such denial shall also include the following language: “A summary of the studies and reports that led to this determination will be provided upon request.” Upon such request by the community board or council member after receiving the denial the department shall provide a summary of the previous or recent traffic studies [and/or] and reports performed by the department. The department shall provide the summary of the traffic studies and reports within 2 weeks of such a request.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

 

 

 

 

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