Requires the department of transportation to develop an updated New York state bicycle and pedestrian plan adapted from the department's nineteen hundred ninety-seven New York state bicycle and pedestrian plan, to be re-evaluated and updated every five years.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1832
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 14, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. MAY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the transportation law, in relation to requiring the
department of transportation to develop an updated New York state
bicycle and pedestrian plan
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 14 of the transportation law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 37 to read as follows:
3 37. (a) To develop an updated New York state bicycle and pedestrian
4 plan, adapted from the department's nineteen hundred ninety-seven New
5 York state bicycle and pedestrian plan for action on infrastructure and
6 programming, and identify steps for the implementation, integration, and
7 evaluation of such plan.
8 (b) Such updated plan shall address changing circumstances in bicycle
9 and pedestrian policy, including but not limited to bicycle sharing
10 programs, the state's complete streets programs pursuant to section
11 three hundred thirty-one of the highway law, the expansion of electric
12 scooters and bicycles with electric assist as defined by sections one
13 hundred fourteen-e and one hundred two-c of the vehicle and traffic law,
14 and recommendations for updates to state laws and policies to encourage
15 bicycle and pedestrian safety.
16 (c) Such updated plan shall be developed no later than December thir-
17 ty-first, two thousand twenty-six and shall be re-evaluated and updated
18 pursuant to the requirements of this subdivision every five years there-
19 after. Such plan shall be made publicly available upon its development.
20 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05313-01-5
