Specifies additional routes where there is an exemption on the maximum dimensions of certain vehicles proceeding to and from the New York state thruway.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6170
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 21, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. MAY -- (at request of the Thruway Authority) -- read
twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the
Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the maximum
dimension of certain vehicles proceeding to and from the New York
state thruway
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 16 of section 385 of the vehicle and traffic
2 law is amended by adding fifteen new paragraphs (v), (w), (x), (y), (z),
3 (aa), (bb), (cc), (dd), (ee), (ff), (gg), (hh), (ii) and (jj) to read as
4 follows:
5 (v) Within a distance of approximately one mile from the New York
6 state thruway interchange 24 traveling along interstate route 90 to
7 interchange 2 Washington avenue, and to Washington avenue traveling
8 westbound to Fuller road in a northerly direction to interstate route 90
9 traveling to interchange 24 of the New York state thruway, where the
10 commissioner of transportation determines that the vehicle or combina-
11 tion of vehicles could operate safely along the designated route and
12 that no applicable federal law, regulation or other requirement prohib-
13 its the operation of such vehicle or combination of vehicles on such
14 route.
15 (w) Within a distance of approximately .25 miles from the New York
16 state thruway interchange 25A, traveling in a westbound direction along
17 interstate route 88 to exit 25 to route 7, and to a left on Becker road
18 traveling in a southbound direction on Becker road for approximately .2
19 miles to the New York state thruway interchange 25A tandem lot access
20 road, where the commissioner of transportation determines that the vehi-
21 cle or combination of vehicles could operate safely along the designated
22 route and that no applicable federal law, regulation or other require-
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 ment prohibits the operation of such vehicle or combination of vehicles
2 on such route.
3 (x) Within a distance of approximately 2.2 miles from the New York
4 state thruway interchange 34A traveling in a southbound direction along
5 interstate route 481 to interstate 481 exit 5E Kirkville road east along
6 state route 53 Kirkville road in an eastbound direction to interstate
7 route 481 traveling northbound to exit 6 to interchange 34A of the New
8 York state thruway, where the commissioner of transportation determines
9 that the vehicle or combination of vehicles could operate safely along
10 the designated route and that no applicable federal law, regulation or
11 other requirement prohibits the operation of such vehicle or combination
12 of vehicles on such route.
13 (y) Within a distance of approximately .8 miles from the New York
14 state thruway interchange 35, traveling approximately two hundred feet
15 around Carrier circle to traveling northbound on Thompson road for
16 approximately one thousand feet, or traveling southbound on Thompson
17 road approximately one hundred feet, to traveling westbound on Tarbell
18 road for approximately .5 miles to reenter at the Dewitt service area of
19 the New York state thruway, where the commissioner of transportation
20 determines that the vehicle or combination of vehicles could operate
21 safely along the designated route and that no applicable federal law,
22 regulation or other requirement prohibits the operation of such vehicle
23 or combination of vehicles on such route.
24 (z) Within a distance of approximately one mile from the New York
25 state thruway interchange 36 traveling in a southbound direction on
26 interstate 81 to interstate 81 exit 25 7th North street, and traveling
27 eastbound on 7th North street to interstate 81 traveling in a northbound
28 direction to interchange 36 of the New York state thruway, where the
29 commissioner of transportation determines that the vehicle or combina-
30 tion of vehicles could operate safely along the designated route and
31 that no applicable federal law, regulation or other requirement prohib-
32 its the operation of such vehicle or combination of vehicles on such
33 route.
34 (aa) Within a distance of approximately .6 miles from the New York
35 state thruway interchange 39 traveling eastbound on interstate 690 to
36 interstate 690 exit 2 Jones road in a northbound direction to state
37 route 690 north to interchange 39 of the New York state thruway, where
38 the commissioner of transportation determines that the vehicle or combi-
39 nation of vehicles could operate safely along the designated route and
40 that no applicable federal law, regulation or other requirement prohib-
41 its the operation of such vehicle or combination of vehicles on such
42 route.
43 (bb) Within a distance of approximately .5 miles from the New York
44 state thruway interchange 45, traveling on interstate 490 to interstate
45 490 exit 29, in a south westerly direction along New York state route 96
46 to the point where New York state route 96 intersects with the entrance
47 ramp to the New York state thruway interchange 45, and for approximately
48 .2 miles along this entrance ramp to the New York state thruway inter-
49 change 45, where the commissioner of transportation determines that the
50 vehicle or combination of vehicles could operate safely along the desig-
51 nated route and that no applicable federal law, regulation or other
52 requirement prohibits the operation of such vehicle or combination of
53 vehicles on such route.
54 (cc) Within a distance of approximately .6 miles from the New York
55 state thruway interchange 46, traveling in a northeasterly direction on
56 the ramp from the New York state thruway interchange 46 to interstate
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1 390 north exit to New York state route 253, Lehigh Station road, for a
2 distance of approximately .5 miles along the ramp from interstate 390
3 north exit to New York state route 253, Lehigh Station road, for a
4 distance of approximately .6 miles in a westerly direction along New
5 York state route 253, Lehigh Station road, to the intersection of New
6 York state route 253 with New York state route 15, then for a distance
7 of approximately .6 miles in a southerly direction along New York state
8 route 15, to the New York state thruway interchange 46 maintenance
9 facility entrance, where the commissioner of transportation determines
10 that the vehicle or combination of vehicles could operate safely along
11 the designated route and that no applicable federal law, regulation or
12 other requirement prohibits the operation of such vehicle or combination
13 of vehicles on such route.
14 (dd) Within a distance of approximately .3 miles from the New York
15 state thruway interchange 47, traveling on interstate 490 to interstate
16 490 exit 1, to a distance of approximately .2 miles along the ramp from
17 interstate 490 exit 1 to Valance road, for a distance of approximately
18 .4 miles in a south westerly direction along Valance road to the
19 entrance ramp of the New York state thruway interchange 47, where the
20 commissioner of transportation determines that the vehicle or combina-
21 tion of vehicles could operate safely along the designated route and
22 that no applicable federal law, regulation or other requirement prohib-
23 its the operation of such vehicle or combination of vehicles on such
24 route.
25 (ee) Within a distance of approximately .2 miles in a north westerly
26 direction from the New York state thruway interchange 61 exit to Short-
27 man road, for a distance of approximately .4 miles in a south easterly
28 direction along Shortman road to the interstate 90 eastbound entrance
29 ramp of the New York state thruway interchange 61, where the commission-
30 er of transportation determines that the vehicle or combination of vehi-
31 cles could operate safely along the designated route and that no appli-
32 cable federal law, regulation or other requirement prohibits the
33 operation of such vehicle or combination of vehicles on such route.
34 (ff) Within a distance of approximately .6 miles from the New York
35 state thruway interchange 19, traveling in a westbound direction along
36 route 28 to route 209, and traveling in a southbound direction on route
37 209 for approximately .1 miles to route 28, and traveling in an east-
38 bound direction on route 28 for approximately .8 miles to the New York
39 state thruway interchange 19, where the commissioner of transportation
40 determines that the vehicle or combination of vehicles could operate
41 safely along the designated route and that no applicable federal law,
42 regulation or other requirement prohibits the operation of such vehicle
43 or combination of vehicles on such route.
44 (gg) Within a distance of approximately .5 miles from the New York
45 state thruway interchange 31, traveling onto the ramp to Genesee street
46 south for approximately twenty-eight hundred feet to Genesee street
47 north for approximately two hundred seventy-five feet to interchange 31
48 of the New York state thruway, where the commissioner of transportation
49 determines that the vehicle or combination of vehicles could operate
50 safely along the designated route and that no applicable federal law,
51 regulation or other requirement prohibits the operation of such vehicle
52 or combination of vehicles on such route.
53 (hh) Within a distance of approximately .2 miles from the New York
54 state thruway interchange 33 traveling westbound on state route 365 for
55 approximately nine hundred feet to interchange 33 of the New York state
56 thruway, where the commissioner of transportation determines that the
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1 vehicle or combination of vehicles could operate safely along the desig-
2 nated route and that no applicable federal law, regulation or other
3 requirement prohibits the operation of such vehicle or combination of
4 vehicles on such route.
5 (ii) Within a distance of approximately .15 miles from the New York
6 state thruway interchange 42 traveling on state route 14 for approxi-
7 mately seven hundred fifty feet for travel to and from the thruway
8 tandem lot and interchange 42, where the commissioner of transportation
9 determines that the vehicle or combination of vehicles could operate
10 safely along the designated route and that no applicable federal law,
11 regulation, or other requirement prohibits the operation of such vehicle
12 or combination of vehicles on such route.
13 (jj) Within a distance of approximately 0.1 miles from the New York
14 state interchange 43 traveling on state route 21 for approximately six
15 hundred feet for travel to and from the thruway tandem lot and inter-
16 change 43, where the commissioner of transportation determines that the
17 vehicle or combination of vehicles could operate safely along the desig-
18 nated route and that no applicable federal law, regulation or other
19 requirement prohibits the operation of such vehicle or combination of
20 vehicles on such route.
21 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.