New York Assembly Bill A05001 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5001--A 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY February 27, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CUNNINGHAM, GLICK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to establishing scramble crosswalks leading to and from school buildings during times of student arrival and dismissal The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision (a) of section 1640 of the vehicle and traffic 2 law is amended by adding a new paragraph 23 to read as follows: 3 23. Establish scramble crosswalks in cities with a population of one 4 million or more leading to and from school buildings during times of 5 student arrival and dismissal. Such scramble crosswalks shall include, 6 but not be limited to, the following requirements: 7 (i) scramble crosswalks shall operate on weekdays between 8:00 A.M. 8 and 4:00 P.M.; 9 (ii) pedestrians shall wait until a pedestrian-control signal indi- 10 cates a sign to walk; 11 (iii) vehicles shall not turn right at the intersection while the 12 traffic signal indicates a red light; 13 (iv) bicyclists may proceed with pedestrians when a pedestrian-control 14 signal indicates a sign to walk, provided however, such bicyclists shall 15 yield the right of way to all pedestrians in the intersection; 16 (v) bicyclists may proceed with vehicular traffic while the traffic 17 signal indicates a green light; and 18 (vi) signs shall be erected at such intersections with a scramble 19 crosswalk indicating that no person shall enter the intersection unless 20 a pedestrian-control signal indicates that all pedestrians may walk. 21 For the purposes of this paragraph, "scramble crosswalk" means a 22 crosswalk with a traffic signal which temporarily stops all vehicular 23 traffic while a pedestrian-control signal indicates that all pedestrians 24 at the intersection shall cross the intersection at the same time. 25 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 26 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD06074-06-3