Bans open pickup trucks on the historic ten and one-half mile section of the Bronx River Parkway, beginning in the city of Yonkers and the village of Bronxville where such Parkway diverges from the Sprain Brook Parkway and extends north along the Bronx River Parkway Reservation to the Kenisco Dam Plaza in the hamlet of Valhalla, town of Mt. Pleasant.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A6829
SPONSOR: Pretlow TITLE OF BILL:
An act in relation to prohibiting certain trucks from operating upon a
certain portion of the Bronx River Parkway
PURPOSE OF BILL:
To ban the use of all open-pickup trucks from using the historic 10 1/2
mile section of the Bronx River Parkway.
JUSTIFICATION:
This historic parkway is picturesque and is listed on the National
Historic Register. Due to the increasing population and subsequent
increase of automobiles, this stretch of the Parkway has become overly
congested. Its narrow lanes and sharp curves are now dangerous because
of the use of it by open pickup trucks. There are many other roads that
the open pick up trucks can use to travel through Westchester County,
south to New York City, Long Island and New Jersey and New England. This
bill will help preserve Westchester's natural beauty and protect motor-
ists.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
A828 2023-2024 referred to transportation
A1569 2021-2022 referred to transportation
A.2618 2019/2020 referred to transportation
A.785 2017/2018 referred to transportation A.2226
2015/2016 referred to transportation
A.2457 2009/2010 referred to transportation
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
NONE
LOCAL IMPLICATIONS:
NONE
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6829
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 14, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Transportation
AN ACT in relation to prohibiting certain trucks from operating upon a
certain portion of the Bronx River Parkway
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of general, special or
2 local law, rule or regulation to the contrary, it shall be unlawful to
3 operate any open pickup truck on the historic ten and one-half mile
4 section of the Bronx River Parkway, beginning in the city of Yonkers and
5 the village of Bronxville where such Parkway diverges from the Sprain
6 Brook Parkway and extends north along the Bronx River Parkway Reserva-
7 tion to the Kenisco Dam Plaza in the hamlet of Valhalla, town of Mt.
8 Pleasant.
9 § 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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