What's happening
This bill requires the MTA to study the feasibility, safety benefits, and costs of installing sliding doors on subway platforms.
Why it matters
Potential for Major Subway Safety Upgrades. By requiring the MTA to study sliding platform doors, the bill directly addresses passenger safety concerns, such as accidental falls, suicides, and the risk of people or objects ending up on the tracks. If the study finds strong safety benefits, it could be a catalyst for significant changes to how New Yorkers experience subway platforms.
Fiscal Implications and System-Wide Impact. The study will have to weigh the considerable costs and logistical challenges of retrofitting old subway stations versus the possible long-term savings from reduced accidents and service disruptions. This means the findings could influence future transit budgets and priorities.
Policy and Accessibility Considerations. The report’s recommendations could shape not only safety standards but also broader policy debates about modernizing and making the subway system more accessible and user-friendly, potentially paving the way for similar upgrades in other cities or transit systems.
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Study Subway Platform Doors
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Senator · Senate District 14
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- Referred to transportation
- Referred to transportation
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Study Subway Platform Doors
In Assembly Committee · Corporations, Authorities And Commissions · Sponsor Robert C. Carroll
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STATE OF NEW YORK
2784
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 29, 2019
Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to direct the metropolitan transportation authority to study the feasibility and impact of installing sliding access doors on subway platforms
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The metropolitan transportation authority shall conduct a study to examine the feasibility and impact of the installation of sliding access doors upon platforms at subway facilities operated by such authority including, but not limited to the following issues:
(a) increased benefits to the safety of customers;
(b) the likelihood of fatality prevention; and
(c) the fiscal impact of installation.
§ 2. Within one year of the effective date of this act, the chairman of the metropolitan transportation authority shall submit a written report to the governor, temporary president of the senate, speaker of the assembly and mayor of the city of New York, with the findings and recommendations of the study conducted pursuant to section one of this act.
§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05645-01-9
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Sponsor's memo
Title of bill
An act to direct the metropolitan transportation authority to study the feasibility and impact of installing sliding access doors on subway platforms
Purpose
This bill directs the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to conduct a safety and fiscal study relative to the feasibility and impact of the installation of sliding access doors upon platforms at subway facilities
Summary of provisions
Section 1 requires the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to conduct a feasibility and impact study as to the installation of sliding access doors upon authority operated subway platforms.
Section 2 requires that within one year of the effective date of this act. the chair of the metropolitan transportation authority shall submit a written report to the governor. temporary president of the senate. speaker of the assembly. and mayor of the city of New York. with the findings and recommendations from its study.
Section 3 sets forth the effective date of this act.
Justification
The rail system is part of the fabric of everyday life for New Yorkers. NYC Transit keeps New York moving 24 hours a day, seven days a week as some 6,400 subway cars travel over nearly 700 track miles in underground tunnels and elevated structures throughout the boroughs of New York City. Yet, the safety of customers is not guaranteed.
Approximately 100 people are struck by New York City Subway trains every year and dozens of those individuals are killed. There have been inci- dents in which customers are pushed or accidentally fall or climb down intentionally to retrieve dropped items. Limiting unauthorized track access would prohibit these fatalities and could result in far less vandalism and litter.
Where the costs and anticipated safety improvements that would result from the installation of sliding access doors on subway platforms are currently unknown, this legislation takes an important step forward by requiring a study of these topics.
Prior legislative history
S 360-A PERALTA Same as A 3527A DenDekker
Fiscal impact
To be determined.
Effective date
This act will take effect immediately.
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