The New York City Council - File #: Int 0867-2018

• File #: Int 0867-2018
• Version: A
• Name: Guidelines for traffic flow designations.
• Type: Introduction
• Status: Enacted
• File created: 5/9/2018
• In control: Committee on Transportation
• On agenda: 5/9/2018
• Final action: 3/16/2019
• Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to guidelines for traffic flow designations
• Sponsors: Adrienne E. Adams, Chaim M. Deutsch, Francisco P. Moya, Helen K. Rosenthal, Laurie A. Cumbo, Alan N. Maisel, Vanessa L. Gibson, I. Daneek Miller, Costa G. Constantinides, Jumaane D. Williams, Deborah L. Rose, Mark Levine, Antonio Reynoso, Donovan J. Richards, Karen Koslowitz, Stephen T. Levin, Mark Gjonaj , Rafael Salamanca, Jr., Carlina Rivera , Ydanis A. Rodriguez, Ben Kallos

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
3/19/2019	A	City Council	Returned Unsigned by Mayor
3/16/2019	A	Administration	City Charter Rule Adopted
2/13/2019	A	City Council	Sent to Mayor by Council
2/13/2019	A	City Council	Approved by Council	Pass
2/13/2019	*	Committee on Transportation	Hearing Held by Committee
2/13/2019	*	Committee on Transportation	Hearing Held by Committee
2/13/2019	*	Committee on Transportation	Amendment Proposed by Comm
2/13/2019	*	Committee on Transportation	Amendment Proposed by Comm
2/13/2019	*	Committee on Transportation	Amended by Committee
2/13/2019	*	Committee on Transportation	Amended by Committee
2/13/2019	A	Committee on Transportation	Approved by Committee	Pass
10/29/2018	*	Committee on Transportation	Hearing Held by Committee
10/29/2018	*	Committee on Transportation	Hearing Held by Committee
10/29/2018	*	Committee on Transportation	Laid Over by Committee
10/29/2018	*	Committee on Transportation	Laid Over by Committee
5/9/2018	*	City Council	Referred to Comm by Council
5/9/2018	*	City Council	Referred to Comm by Council
5/9/2018	*	City Council	Introduced by Council
5/9/2018	*	City Council	Introduced by Council

Int. No. 867-A

By Council Members Adams, Deutsch, Moya, Rosenthal, Cumbo, Maisel, Gibson, Miller, Constantinides, Williams, Rose, Levine, Reynoso, Richards, Koslowitz, Levin, Gjonaj, Salamanca, Rivera, Rodriguez and Kallos

Title
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to guidelines for traffic flow designations
Body

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:


Section 1. Section 19-183 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 64 for the year 2010, is amended to read as follows:
? 19-183 Traffic calming devices and traffic flow designations. 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 insta...