Directs the metropolitan transportation authority, in conjunction with the New York city transit authority, to develop weekly and monthly tickets valid for optional, discounted transfers between such authorities.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4411
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 4, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- 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 tickets
purchased for the Long Island Rail Road and the Metro-North Commuter
Railroad Company
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The public authorities law is amended by adding a new
2 section 1266-n to read as follows:
3 § 1266-n. Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North Commuter Railroad
4 Company; transfers to New York city transit. Notwithstanding any other
5 provision of law, general, special or local, the authority, in conjunc-
6 tion with the New York city transit authority, shall develop and imple-
7 ment a weekly and a monthly ticket valid for optional, discounted trans-
8 fers between the Long Island Rail Road and the Metro-North Commuter
9 Railroad Company to the New York city transit authority subways and
10 buses.
11 § 2. The public authorities law is amended by adding a new section
12 1219-b to read as follows:
13 § 1219-b. Authority; transfers to Long Island Railroad and Metro-North
14 Commuter Railroad Company. Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
15 general, special or local, the authority, in conjunction with the metro-
16 politan transportation authority, shall develop and implement a weekly
17 and a monthly ticket valid for optional, discounted transfers between
18 the authority subways and buses to the Long Island Rail Road and the
19 Metro-North Commuter Railroad Company.
20 § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
21 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08750-01-5
