Bill Text: NY A05410 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 5410

Introduced

Bill Title: Authorizes the New York city department of transportation to adopt a rule permitting the use of the Korean war veterans parkway in Richmond county by single unit commercial vehicles having no more than three axles and ten tires.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-13 - referred to transportation [A05410 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A05410-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5410

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 13, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. REILLY -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Transportation

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  highway  law, in relation to the creation of an
          exception on the Korean war veterans parkway in  Richmond  county  for
          the use of certain commercial vehicles

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 3.4 of section 349-c of  the  highway  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  453  of  the  laws  of 2008, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    3.4. The state shall proceed with the construction  of  a  section  or
     5  sections  of [said] such system after designs, plans, specifications and
     6  estimates of cost thereof have been completed and approved by  the  city
     7  and  the  commissioner of transportation, and the necessary property has
     8  been acquired. The city may, however, elect to construct such section or
     9  sections at its own expense in the manner provided by the  city  charter
    10  or  otherwise. Upon the completion by the state of a section or sections
    11  of parkways constructed by the state  in  the  city  of  New  York,  the
    12  commissioner  of  transportation shall by official order transfer juris-
    13  diction over the central express artery and adjacent landscape areas and
    14  over adjacent service roads to the city of New York. All such  parkways,
    15  excepting  such service roads shall be maintained by the city department
    16  of transportation as parkways restricted to pleasure vehicles and  with-
    17  out  access except at designated points, except that the city department
    18  of transportation may adopt a rule permitting the use of  a  portion  of
    19  the  Grand  Central parkway between the Robert F. Kennedy bridge and the
    20  western leg of the Brooklyn-Queens expressway and permitting the use  of
    21  the  Korean  war  veterans  parkway  in  Richmond  county by single unit
    22  commercial vehicles having no more  than  three  axles  and  ten  tires.
    23  Parkway  service  roads  shall  be  open  to  mixed  traffic.  Upon  the
    24  completion of a section or sections of expressways including  incidental

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08822-01-5

        A. 5410                             2

     1  service  roads  constructed  by  the  state in the city of New York, the
     2  commissioner of transportation shall transfer jurisdiction to  the  city
     3  of  New  York.  The  provisions  of this article in regard to design and
     4  construction shall apply also to reconstruction of a section or sections
     5  of the state arterial system.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.