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A09985 Summary:

BILL NOA09985A
 
SAME ASSAME AS S09769
 
SPONSORSimon
 
COSPNSRArdila, Dickens, Simone, Carroll, Forrest, Gallagher, Hevesi, Rajkumar, Gonzalez-Rojas, Bores, Cunningham, Shrestha, Davila, Mamdani
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd §1642, V & T L
 
Provides that cities having a population in excess of one million shall not supersede state provisions relating to the state law prohibition on individuals standing or parking a vehicle within twenty feet of a cross walk at an intersection.
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A09985 Actions:

BILL NOA09985A
 
05/01/2024referred to transportation
05/24/2024amend (t) and recommit to transportation
05/24/2024print number 9985a
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A09985 Memo:

NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY
MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION
submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
 
BILL NUMBER: A9985A
 
SPONSOR: Simon
  TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to traffic regulations for parking or standing vehicles in cities having a popu- lation in excess of one million   PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: Improve Pedestrian safety at all Intersections of traffic.   SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: repeal paragraph 2 of subdivision (a) of section 1642 of the vehicle and traffic law relating to traffic regulations for parking, standing, and stopping and backing up of vehicles in cities having a population in excess of one million.   JUSTIFICATION: A recent study by the Prospect Heights Neighborhood Development Corpo- ration (PHNDC) from November of 2023 has found that not a single inter- section of the thickly settled neighborhood of Prospect Heights, Brook- lyn, followed state daylighting laws. Daylighting, which bans parking within 20 feet of crosswalks is a safety measure that increases visibil- ity of pedestrians as they cross the street. After the untimely deaths of two individuals at intersections in the vicinity in 2023, once of whom was a 7year-old child crossing near his school, a City Council bill was introduced to require daylighting at all intersections within a half-mile of a school. All 54 intersections of the Prospect Heights neighborhood are within a half mile of a school, and this is true of many densely populated neighborhoods in New York City. The study found that these deaths were preventable because visibility was impaired by the lack of daylighting. In fact, the intersections along Vanderbilt Avenue in Prospect Heights ranked among the top 10% of Brooklyn streets for persons killed or being badly injured from 2016 to 2020. Had these intersections complied with the state daylighting laws pedestrian visi- bility would have not been a factor in traffic violence. For years, New York City has been exempted from the state's daylighting law and that exemption is no longer tenable. This bill would repeal that exemption.   PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: new bill   FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS: to be determined   EFFECTIVE DATE: this act shall take effect immediately
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