What's happening
This bill requires community boards to be notified at least 30 days before substantial service changes to NYC transit or bus lines.
Why it matters
Increases local accountability. By requiring at least 30 days’ notice to affected community boards before major transit or bus line service changes, the bill ensures local representatives have early warning and can respond to potential disruptions.
Facilitates community input. Advance notice gives community boards and residents more opportunity to voice concerns, suggest alternatives, or prepare for the impacts of service changes, potentially leading to outcomes that better reflect community needs.
Promotes transparency in decision-making. Mandating formal notification makes the process for altering transit and bus services more open, helping to prevent sudden changes that could catch riders and neighborhoods off guard.
Strengthens community-government relations. By formally including community boards in the notification process, the bill acknowledges their role as stakeholders and partners in public transportation planning.
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Notify Boards on Transit Changes
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Sponsors
18 Co-sponsors
2 Multi-sponsors
History
- Referred to corporations, authorities and commissions
- Referred to corporations, authorities and commissions
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
Notify Boards on Transit Changes
In Senate Committee · Transportation · Sponsor Leroy Comrie
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STATE OF NEW YORK
3322
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 29, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. COLTON, L. ROSENTHAL, RIVERA, BLAKE, 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.
LBD04736-01-9
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