A 5410: 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 two axles and six tires.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 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.