STATE OF NEW YORK
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7833
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 24, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. CARROLL -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
AN ACT to direct the metropolitan transportation authority to study the
feasibility and impact of installing sliding access doors on subway
platforms
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The metropolitan transportation authority shall conduct a
2 study to examine the feasibility and impact of the installation of slid-
3 ing access doors upon platforms at subway facilities operated by such
4 authority including, but not limited to the following issues:
5 (a) increased benefits to the safety of customers;
6 (b) the likelihood of fatality prevention; and
7 (c) the fiscal impact of installation.
8 § 2. Within one year of the effective date of this act, the chairman
9 of the metropolitan transportation authority shall submit a written
10 report to the governor, temporary president of the senate, speaker of
11 the assembly and mayor of the city of New York, with the findings and
12 recommendations of the study conducted pursuant to section one of this
13 act.
14 § 3. 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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