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Senate Bill S1933

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Relates to commuter safety

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2011-S1933 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Public Authorities Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง1269-d, Pub Auth L
Versions Introduced in 2009-2010 Legislative Session:
S878

2011-S1933 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the metropolitan transit authority to include in its annual strategic operation plan an analysis of the impact of a proposed reduction in transit authority personnel or services including, but not limited to, booth closings, on commuter safety.

2011-S1933 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2011-S1933 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  1933

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 14, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  KRUGER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation

AN ACT to amend the public authorities  law,  in  relation  to  commuter
  safety

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Paragraph b of subdivision  1  of  section  1269-d  of  the
public  authorities  law, as amended by chapter 929 of the laws of 1986,
is amended to read as follows:
  b. Planned service and performance standards  for  each  year  of  the
period covered by the plan; including, in such plan submitted after July
first,  nineteen  hundred  eighty-eight,  (a)  standards for determining
frequency of service at peak hours and off-peak hours, (b) frequency  of
service  at  peak  and  off-peak  hours based on the application of such
standards to the current period for each subway line, bus route or group
of bus routes, and commuter rail lines, divisions or branches as  appro-
priate,  (c)  projected  performance  for each subway line, bus route or
group of bus routes, and commuter rail lines, divisions or  branches  as
appropriate  as  measured  by  reliability  indicators commonly utilized
within the transit industry, including such measures  as  mean  distance
between  failures  for  subway cars, planned number of vehicles with air
conditioning and projected reliability of such equipment, planned stand-
ards for cleanliness of the interior and exterior of subway cars, commu-
ter rail cars, buses, and  passenger  stations,  and  other  appropriate
measures of planned performance influencing the quality of services, (D)
AN  ANALYSIS  OF THE IMPACT OF A PROPOSED REDUCTION IN TRANSIT AUTHORITY
PERSONNEL OR SERVICES INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, BOOTH CLOSINGS,  ON
COMMUTER  SAFETY.  WITHIN  TEN DAYS OF THE COMPLETION OF SUCH ANALYSIS A
COPY THEREOF SHALL BE FORWARDED TO THE GOVERNOR FOR REVIEW  AND  COMMENT
THEREON;
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD07147-01-1

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