What's happening
This bill requires that community boards receive at least 30 days' written notice before substantial changes to NYC transit or bus services.
Why it matters
Strengthens local input. By ensuring community boards get advance notice, the bill gives neighborhoods a formal opportunity to weigh in on transit or bus service changes that directly affect them, potentially leading to solutions better tailored to local needs.
Improves transparency and accountability. Requiring written notice means transit authorities can’t make major service changes without informing the public, reducing the chance of abrupt disruptions and increasing trust in public decision-making.
Creates a predictable process. The 30-day minimum notice period gives both community boards and residents time to respond, organize feedback, or prepare for changes, making the process less chaotic and more democratic.
May slow down some service changes. While this added step benefits community engagement, it could also lengthen the timeline for implementing urgent or needed transit adjustments, potentially affecting operational flexibility.
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Notify Community Boards on Transit
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- Referred to corporations, authorities and commissions
- Referred to corporations, authorities and commissions
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Notify Boards of Transit Changes
In Assembly Committee · Corporations, Authorities And Commissions · Sponsor Leroy Comrie
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STATE OF NEW YORK
7109
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 10, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. COLTON, ROSENTHAL, BLAKE, RIVERA, WALKER, NOLAN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to requiring that notice be given to the community boards when there is a change in service furnished upon the rapid transit facilities or the omnibus line facilities of the New York city transit authority
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 1205 of the public authorities law, as added by chapter 717 of the laws of 1967, is amended to read as follows:
4. From and after March first, nineteen hundred sixty-eight, no substantial or general change in the levels of service furnished upon the rapid transit facilities or the omnibus line facilities of the authority shall be instituted except upon not less than thirty days' written notice to the mayor [and to], the board of estimate and the community board whose area of jurisdiction includes the rapid transit facility or omnibus line facility upon which such change of service was furnished.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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