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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1933
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 14, 2011
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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:
1 Section 1. Paragraph b of subdivision 1 of section 1269-d of the
2 public authorities law, as amended by chapter 929 of the laws of 1986,
3 is amended to read as follows:
4 b. Planned service and performance standards for each year of the
5 period covered by the plan; including, in such plan submitted after July
6 first, nineteen hundred eighty-eight, (a) standards for determining
7 frequency of service at peak hours and off-peak hours, (b) frequency of
8 service at peak and off-peak hours based on the application of such
9 standards to the current period for each subway line, bus route or group
10 of bus routes, and commuter rail lines, divisions or branches as appro-
11 priate, (c) projected performance for each subway line, bus route or
12 group of bus routes, and commuter rail lines, divisions or branches as
13 appropriate as measured by reliability indicators commonly utilized
14 within the transit industry, including such measures as mean distance
15 between failures for subway cars, planned number of vehicles with air
16 conditioning and projected reliability of such equipment, planned stand-
17 ards for cleanliness of the interior and exterior of subway cars, commu-
18 ter rail cars, buses, and passenger stations, and other appropriate
19 measures of planned performance influencing the quality of services, (d)
20 an analysis of the impact of a proposed reduction in transit authority
21 personnel or services including, but not limited to, booth closings, on
22 commuter safety. Within ten days of the completion of such analysis a
23 copy thereof shall be forwarded to the governor for review and comment
24 thereon;
25 § 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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