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a. For the purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
1. "School" shall mean any educational facility under the jurisdiction of the New York city department of education and any non-public school that provides educational instructions to students at or below the ninth grade level.
2. "Senior" shall mean any person sixty-five years or older.
3. "Traffic calming device" shall mean any device, not governed by the manual on uniform traffic control devices, including, but not limited to, speed humps, curb extensions, traffic diverters, median barriers and raised walkways, installed on a street and intended to slow, reduce or alter motor vehicle traffic to improve safety for pedestrians and bicyclists.
4. "Traffic flow designation" shall mean the designation of a street as a one-way or two-way street.
b. The department shall establish guidelines governing the approval and placement of traffic calming devices. Such guidelines shall consider whether such traffic calming devices would be installed adjacent to a school or in a location where a high percentage of seniors use the streets, such as locations adjacent to senior centers and nursing homes, and any other locations as determined by the department. Such guidelines shall list the conditions under which installation of such traffic calming device may be appropriate. Such guidelines shall be distributed to any entity upon request and shall be published on the department's website.
c. The department shall establish and maintain on its website guidelines regarding traffic flow designations. Such guidelines shall include the criteria and considerations for assessing proposed changes to traffic flow designations and the process by which changes in traffic flow designations can be requested. The department shall post on its website by August 1, 2020, and every August 1 thereafter, the number of requests for changes in traffic flow designations received by the department during the 12 months ending on the preceding June 30, disaggregated by location and by the category of requesting party, and the status of such requests.
(Am. L.L. 2019/052, 3/16/2019, eff. 6/14/2019)
a. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:
Senior pedestrian zone. The term "senior pedestrian zone" means a geographic area designated by the commissioner, in consultation with the department for the aging, based on a consideration of factors, including but not limited to, the number of injuries to senior pedestrians in such area each year and the number of older adults residing in such area.
Traffic calming device. The term "traffic calming device" means a device, including but not limited to street redesigns, speed humps, neckdowns, and raised crosswalks, installed on a street and intended to slow, reduce, or alter motor vehicle traffic to enhance safety for pedestrians and cyclists.
b. Each year, the commissioner shall evaluate each senior pedestrian zone for installation of traffic calming devices, install at least one traffic calming device in each senior pedestrian zone, and install no less than 50 traffic calming devices across all senior pedestrian zones.
c. Notwithstanding subdivision b of this section, the commissioner shall not be required to install a traffic calming device where such installation would, in the commissioner's judgment, endanger the safety of motorists, pedestrians, or cyclists, or otherwise not be in the public interest.
d. After at least 50 traffic calming devices have been installed in total across all senior pedestrian zones, the commissioner may cease installing traffic calming devices in any senior pedestrian zone where the commissioner determines such installation would not meaningfully contribute to the safety of motorists, pedestrians, or cyclists. The commissioner shall inform the speaker of the council in writing of such determination and the reasons therefore, and shall specify the senior pedestrian zone or zones where the installation of traffic calming devices has ceased; provided, however, that the commissioner may continue to install traffic calming devices in senior pedestrian zones after such determination, at the commissioner's discretion. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the department shall evaluate the need to install one or more traffic calming devices in any senior pedestrian zone newly established, or expanded after the date of any such determination.
e. On or before February 1, 2024, and annually thereafter, the commissioner shall submit to the speaker of the council a report detailing the locations where a traffic calming device has been installed pursuant to this section during the prior calendar year. The information required by such report may be submitted as part of the update required to be submitted by paragraph 2 of subdivision d of section 19-199.1 of this code. Notwithstanding the foregoing, such report shall not be required if the commissioner has determined to cease installation of traffic calming devices in all senior pedestrian zones pursuant to subdivision d of this section.
(L.L. 2023/063, 5/29/2023, eff. 5/29/2023)
a. The department shall develop an interagency plan to improve roadway safety, which shall be designed to, among other things, reduce the incidents of traffic violations, crashes, injuries and fatalities.
b. Such plan shall identify key agencies and groups that the department shall meet with at least monthly to work on improving roadway safety and shall include, but not be limited to:
i. Proposed programs and initiatives to reduce traffic violations and to encourage traffic calming and safety measures;
ii. Suggestions for behavioral modification to reduce crashes in the city, such as education and strategic traffic enforcement;
iii. A plan to increase collaboration between the department and the police department on roadway safety; and
iv. A schedule for implementing the proposals contained in such plan.
c. The department shall issue such plan to the mayor and council ninety days after the date on which the local law that added this section takes effect. Such report shall include, but not be limited to, the strategies for improving roadway safety, whether any strategies were implemented, and the status of such implementation.
d. Such plan shall be updated every five years and the first such updated plan shall be presented to the mayor and council no later than May 31, 2016 and on or before the same date every five years thereafter. Such updated plan shall include but not be limited to actions that have been taken to implement the prior plans submitted pursuant to this section, and the reasons that any actions that had been recommended by such prior plans but not implemented were not taken.
The department shall include with any determination denying a request by a community board or council member for a traffic control device regulated by the manual on uniform traffic control devices, a summary of the traffic control device warrants, along with the date and time that the department performed its traffic analysis and the time period of any crash data considered by the department for such warrants. Such denial shall also include the following language: "A summary of the studies and reports that led to this determination will be provided upon request." Upon such request by the community board or council member after receiving the denial the department shall provide a summary of the traffic studies and/or reports performed by the department.
a. Definitions. For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:
All-way stop control intersection. The term “all-way stop control intersection” means an intersection where each roadway approaching such intersection has a stop sign.
Case number. The term “case number” means a unique series of numbers or letters that is used to identify a request for a speed reducer or traffic-control device.
Speed cushion. The term “speed cushion” means any raised area in the roadway pavement surface extending transversely across the travel way that: (i) is composed of asphalt or another paving material; (ii) is installed and designed for the purpose of slowing vehicular traffic; and (iii) has cutouts for wheels to allow a large vehicle to pass such raised area without reducing the speed of such vehicle.
Speed hump. The term “speed hump” means any raised area in the roadway pavement surface extending transversely across the travel way that: (i) is composed of asphalt or another paving material; and (ii) is installed and designed for the purpose of slowing vehicular traffic, provided such term does not include a speed cushion.
Speed reducer. The term “speed reducer” means a speed cushion or a speed hump.
Traffic-control device. The term “traffic-control device” means an all-way stop control intersection or a traffic-control signal.
Traffic-control signal. The term “traffic-control signal” has the same meaning as set forth in section 154 of the vehicle and traffic law.
b. No later than January 1, 2027, the commissioner shall make available on a website of the department information regarding requests for traffic-control devices and speed reducers. Such information shall be searchable by case number and by address of the location where such traffic-control device or speed reducer is requested to be installed.
c. The information required in subdivision b shall include, but need not be limited to, for each request for a traffic-control device or speed reducer:
1. Case number;
2. Subject of the request, including whether the request is for a speed reducer or a traffic-control device;
3. Status, including whether the request is open or has been resolved;
4. For a request that has been resolved, whether a traffic-control device or speed reducer has been installed or is planned to be installed in response to such request;
5. For a request that has been approved, the date that such traffic-control device or speed reducer was installed, or the time period during which such traffic-control device or speed reducer is anticipated to be installed; and
6. For a request that has been denied, the reason for denial.
d. The commissioner shall also provide on such website a data dictionary that defines any term used to describe a traffic-control device or speed reducer, and a summary of the steps that are required to install a traffic-control device or speed reducer.
e. The commissioner shall update the information provided pursuant to subdivisions b and c as soon as practicable following any update or change to a request for a traffic-control device or speed reducer.
(L.L. 2024/113, 11/22/2024, eff. 11/22/2024)
a. The department shall compile the total number of bicycle crashes that are reported to city agencies. Such bicycle crash compilation shall include crashes between bicycles, between bicycles and motorized vehicles and between bicycles and pedestrians. The department shall commence compiling such data on October 1, 2011.
b. On June 1, 2012 and annually thereafter, the department shall provide a report to the council for the preceding calendar year, with such report posted on the department's website, of the total number of reported crashes as required by subdivision a of this section, disaggregated by those involving solely bicycles, between bicycles and motorized vehicles, and between bicycles and pedestrians. Such report shall also include the number of injuries and fatalities resulting from such crashes disaggregated as above. Such report shall also be disaggregated by borough and by police precinct.
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