What's happening
This bill allows East Hampton to lower speed limits on certain roads to as low as 20 miles per hour.
Why it matters
Targets Specific Roads. The bill specifically names several streets in East Hampton where the lower speed limits could be applied, focusing on areas likely identified as needing greater safety due to traffic, pedestrian, or residential concerns.
Local Control Over Speed Limits. Empowers the East Hampton town board with direct authority to change speed limits by local law or regulation, bypassing some state restrictions and allowing for more responsive, community-specific traffic management.
Potential Safety and Quality of Life Impact. Lowering speed limits to 20 mph on these roads could reduce accidents, improve pedestrian and cyclist safety, and address neighborhood concerns about speeding and traffic-related noise.
Sets a Precedent for Other Municipalities. If successful, this local exception could inspire similar legislative efforts in other towns seeking more control over their traffic safety measures.
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Lower East Hampton Speed Limits
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- Referred to transportation
- Referred to transportation
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Lower Speed Limits Allowed
In Assembly Committee · Transportation · Sponsor Kenneth P. LaValle
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STATE OF NEW YORK
S. 5558 A. 7174
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
SENATE - ASSEMBLY
April 12, 2017
IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. LAVALLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT authorizing the town of East Hampton to reduce the maximum speed limit along certain designated streets in such town to not less than
20 miles per hour
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Notwithstanding any general, special or local law or code to the contrary, the town board of the town of East Hampton in Suffolk county, subject to the limitations imposed by sections 1624 and 1684 of the vehicle and traffic law may by local law, ordinance, order, rule or regulation establish maximum speed limits at not less than twenty miles per hour on any portion of the following streets within such town: Indian Hill Road, Miller Lane and Miller Lane East and Miller Lane West, Bluff Road, Mako Lane, Marine Boulevard, Atlantic Avenue, Main Street (Wainscott), Wainscott Stone Road, and Indian Wells Highway.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10910-02-7
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