Requires the metropolitan transportation authority to provide more detailed information to the public on its website regarding specific subway line performance and capacity.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3237
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 5, 2019
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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 requiring the
metropolitan transportation authority to provide more detailed infor-
mation to the public on its website
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 1276-e of the public authorities law, as added by
2 section 19 of part H of chapter 25 of the laws of 2009, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 § 1276-e. Reporting. 1. The authority shall post on its website on or
5 before the first of May, the law firms retained by the authority which
6 in the past year received payment for services in such year.
7 2. The authority shall further post monthly statistics on service
8 disruptions, including but not limited to: delineation of planned and
9 unplanned disruptions; length of service disruptions and the frequency
10 of disruptions per month.
11 3. The authority shall conduct a study on maximum capacity and current
12 capacity. Such study shall differentiate between platform capacity and
13 train capacity.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06723-01-9