Bill Text: NY S04508 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes scramble crosswalks leading to and from school buildings during times of student arrival and dismissal to ensure all vehicular traffic is stopped while pedestrians are crossing in the same intersection.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-06 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S04508 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S04508-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4508

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 6, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  RAMOS, ADDABBO, COMRIE, GOUNARDES, HOYLMAN-SIGAL,
          LIU, MAY, PARKER, SEPULVEDA, WEBB -- read twice and  ordered  printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to establishing
          scramble  crosswalks leading to and from school buildings during times
          of student arrival and dismissal

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

     1    Section  1.  The  vehicle  and  traffic law is amended by adding a new
     2  section 1640-t to read as follows:
     3    § 1640-t. Scramble crosswalks in  cities  with  a  population  of  one
     4  million  or more. 1. There shall be scramble crosswalks in cities with a
     5  population of one million or more leading to and from  school  buildings
     6  during  times of student arrival and dismissal. Such scramble crosswalks
     7  shall include, but not be limited to, the following requirements:
     8    (a) scramble crosswalks shall operate on weekdays  between  8:00  A.M.
     9  and 4:00 P.M.;
    10    (b) pedestrians shall wait until a pedestrian-control signal indicates
    11  a sign to walk;
    12    (c)  vehicles shall not turn right at the intersection while the traf-
    13  fic signal indicates a red light;
    14    (d) bicyclists may proceed with pedestrians when a  pedestrian-control
    15  signal indicates a sign to walk, provided however, such bicyclists shall
    16  yield the right of way to all pedestrians in the intersection;
    17    (e)  bicyclists  may  proceed with vehicular traffic while the traffic
    18  signal indicates a green light; and
    19    (f) signs shall be erected  at  such  intersections  with  a  scramble
    20  crosswalk  indicating that no person shall enter the intersection unless
    21  a pedestrian-control signal indicates that all pedestrians may walk.
    22    2. For the purposes of this  section,  "scramble  crosswalk"  means  a
    23  crosswalk  with  a  traffic signal which temporarily stops all vehicular

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04070-01-5
        S. 4508                             2

     1  traffic while a pedestrian-control signal indicates that all pedestrians
     2  at the intersection shall cross the intersection at the same time.
     3    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     4  have become a law.