S 4116: Directs the metropolitan transportation authority to study the feasibility and impact of installing sliding access doors on subway platforms.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4116 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE February 3, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to direct the metropolitan transportation authority to study the feasibility and impact of installing sliding access doors on subway platforms 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. Within one year of the effective date of this act, the chairman 9 of the metropolitan transportation authority shall submit a written 10 report to the governor, temporary president of the senate, speaker of 11 the assembly and mayor of the city of New York, with the findings and 12 recommendations of the study conducted pursuant to section one of this 13 act. 14 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05465-01-5