Relates to reporting on the metropolitan transportation authority's state of good repair; requires the reporting to be published on the authority's website, outlining the repairs and investments needed to restore the authority's existing transit systems to a state of good repair.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2964
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 31, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. KAPLAN -- 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 reporting on
the metropolitan transportation authority's state of good repair
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 1269-b of the public authorities
2 law is amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
3 (c) Thirty days prior to submitting to the metropolitan transportation
4 authority capital program review board any amendments or modifications
5 to any five-year plan, the authority shall publish a report, that shall
6 be available on the metropolitan transportation authority's website,
7 outlining the repairs and investments needed to restore the authority's
8 existing transit systems to a state of good repair and ensure the exist-
9 ing transit systems continue to deliver transportation services safely
10 and reliably for the metropolitan commuter transportation district. Such
11 report shall include the dollar amounts needed, as well as the dollar
12 amounts committed to restore the following elements to a state of good
13 repair: subway cars, buses, passenger stations, tracks, line equipment,
14 line structures, signals and communications, traction power, shops and
15 yards, depots, service vehicles, handicap accessibility and any other
16 elements that are critical to the transit operations of the authority.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02340-01-9
