Provides that cities having a population in excess of one million shall not supersede state provisions relating to the state law prohibition on individuals standing or parking a vehicle within twenty feet of a cross walk at an intersection.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A9985A
SPONSOR: Simon TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to traffic
regulations for parking or standing vehicles in cities having a popu-
lation in excess of one million
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
Improve Pedestrian safety at all Intersections of traffic.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
repeal paragraph 2 of subdivision (a) of section 1642 of the vehicle and
traffic law relating to traffic regulations for parking, standing, and
stopping and backing up of vehicles in cities having a population in
excess of one million.
JUSTIFICATION:
A recent study by the Prospect Heights Neighborhood Development Corpo-
ration (PHNDC) from November of 2023 has found that not a single inter-
section of the thickly settled neighborhood of Prospect Heights, Brook-
lyn, followed state daylighting laws. Daylighting, which bans parking
within 20 feet of crosswalks is a safety measure that increases visibil-
ity of pedestrians as they cross the street. After the untimely deaths
of two individuals at intersections in the vicinity in 2023, once of
whom was a 7year-old child crossing near his school, a City Council bill
was introduced to require daylighting at all intersections within a
half-mile of a school. All 54 intersections of the Prospect Heights
neighborhood are within a half mile of a school, and this is true of
many densely populated neighborhoods in New York City. The study found
that these deaths were preventable because visibility was impaired by
the lack of daylighting. In fact, the intersections along Vanderbilt
Avenue in Prospect Heights ranked among the top 10% of Brooklyn streets
for persons killed or being badly injured from 2016 to 2020. Had these
intersections complied with the state daylighting laws pedestrian visi-
bility would have not been a factor in traffic violence.
For years, New York City has been exempted from the state's daylighting
law and that exemption is no longer tenable. This bill would repeal that
exemption.
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
new bill
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:
to be determined
EFFECTIVE DATE:
this act shall take effect immediately
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9985--A
IN ASSEMBLY
May 1, 2024
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Introduced by M. of A. SIMON, ARDILA -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Transportation -- committee discharged, bill amended,
ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to traffic
regulations for parking or standing vehicles in cities having a popu-
lation in excess of one million
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph 2 of subdivision (a) of section 1642 of the vehi-
2 cle and traffic law is amended to read as follows:
3 2. Parking, standing, stopping and backing of vehicles, except in
4 violation of subparagraph b of paragraph two of subdivision (a) of
5 section twelve hundred two of this chapter.
6 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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