Bill Text: NY S07625 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the New York city transit authority and the metropolitan transportation authority to report to the governor and the legislature on service reductions and eliminations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-06-07 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S07625 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S07625-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                     June 7, 2012
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  GOLDEN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
       AN ACT in relation to directing the New York city transit authority  and
         the  metropolitan  transportation  authority to report to the governor
         and the legislature on transportation service  reductions  and  elimi-
         nations occurring since January 1, 2008
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. The New York city transit authority  and  the  metropolitan
    2  transportation  authority shall report to the legislature and the gover-
    3  nor on all transportation service reductions and eliminations  occurring
    4  since  January  1, 2008. The report shall include the following informa-
    5  tion:
    6    a. All bus, subway, and commuter rail service  reductions  and  elimi-
    7  nations occurring since January 1, 2008, broken out by route;
    8    b.  The  number  and  geographic breakout of all customers impacted by
    9  such service reductions and eliminations, for each route;
   10    c. The actual revenue savings versus the anticipated savings from such
   11  service reductions and eliminations, for each route;
   12    d. The costs to fully  restore  such  service  reductions  and  elimi-
   13  nations, for each route; and
   14    e.  A  detailed  plan  for full restoration of services that have been
   15  eliminated or reduced  since  January  1,  2008;  or,  alternatively,  a
   16  detailed  plan for equitable restoration of subways, buses, and commuter
   17  rails that substantially mitigates the negative impacts of such  service
   18  reductions  and eliminations and fairly restores the services across all
   19  impacted neighborhoods and regions.
   20    S 2. The report shall be delivered to the governor and the legislature
   21  on or before December 31, 2012.
   22    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD16104-01-2