Bill Text: NY A03483 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the metropolitan transportation authority to study the feasibility and impact of installing sliding access doors on subway platforms; directs such authority to ensure the proper operation of security cameras on subway platforms and install emergency communications devices.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [A03483 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A03483-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3483
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 27, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  DenDEKKER  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
        AN ACT to direct the metropolitan transportation authority to study  the
          feasibility  and  impact  of installing sliding access doors on subway
          platforms, ensure proper operation of  security  cameras  and  install
          instant communications devices
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The metropolitan transportation authority shall  conduct  a
     2  study to examine the feasibility and impact of the installation of slid-
     3  ing  access  doors  upon platforms at subway facilities operated by such
     4  authority including, but not limited to the following issues:
     5    (a) increased benefits to the safety of customers;
     6    (b) the likelihood of fatality prevention; and
     7    (c) the fiscal impact of installation.
     8    § 2. The metropolitan transportation  authority  shall  ensure  proper
     9  operation  of  all  security  cameras at all subway stations operated by
    10  such authority.
    11    Such authority is further directed to publish an annual report  relat-
    12  ing  to  the  proper  operation  of security cameras at subway stations,
    13  which shall include, but not be limited, to the following:
    14    (a) the total number of systemwide incidents of security camera  fail-
    15  ures  occurring  within  a calendar year, as well as a metric indicating
    16  the percentage of all systemwide security cameras  having  failed  at  a
    17  point during a calendar year;
    18    (b)  the length of time that each security camera experiencing a fail-
    19  ure was malfunctioning for;
    20    (c) whether negligence on  the  part  of  metropolitan  transportation
    21  authority  staff  was a contributing factor to the failure of a specific
    22  security camera;
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08651-01-7
        A. 3483                             2
     1    (d) whether negligence on the part of the metropolitan  transportation
     2  authority  staff  was  a contributing factor to the time elapsed between
     3  the failure of a security camera and its reinstatement to proper  opera-
     4  tion; and
     5    (e)  a  list of security camera failures occurring within the calendar
     6  year, delineated by each subway station operated by the authority.
     7    § 3. The metropolitan transportation authority shall:
     8    (a) install instant communications devices, commonly  referred  to  as
     9  "help point" systems, at all subway stations operated by such authority;
    10    (b)  develop  policies  and  procedures  relative  to  customer use of
    11  instant communications devices to contact rail control centers  oversee-
    12  ing subway traffic;
    13    (c)  annually publish information, on or before December thirty-first,
    14  that indicates how many subway stations  operated  by  the  metropolitan
    15  transportation authority have undergone installation of instant communi-
    16  cations  devices,  until such time as all subway stations have undergone
    17  installation of instant communications devices; and
    18    (d) within ninety days of the effective date of this  act,  publish  a
    19  timetable  including  the  date by which the metropolitan transportation
    20  authority expects to complete  installation  of  instant  communications
    21  devices at all subway stations in its system.
    22    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.