N.Y. Public Authorities Law § 1269-d: Submission of strategic operation plan

§ 1269-d. Submission of strategic operation plan. 1. On or before July

first nineteen hundred eighty-seven, the authority shall submit to the

governor a strategic operation plan for the five year period commencing

January first of the following year. One component of the plan shall be

for the bus and subway services of the New York city transit authority

and its subsidiaries and for the Staten Island rapid transit operating

authority; the other component shall be for the commuter railroad

services, not including the Staten Island rapid transit operating

authority, under the jurisdiction of the authority. The plan may be

amended as required but shall be updated at least annually. The plan

shall include, but need not be limited to, the following:

a. Long-range goals and objectives for the operation of services and

facilities;

b. Planned service and performance standards for each year of the

period covered by the plan; including, in such plan submitted after July

first, nineteen hundred eighty-eight, (a) standards for determining

frequency of service at peak hours and off-peak hours, (b) frequency of

service at peak and off-peak hours based on the application of such

standards to the current period for each subway line, bus route or group

of bus routes, and commuter rail lines, divisions or branches as

appropriate, (c) projected performance for each subway line, bus route

or group of bus routes, and commuter rail lines, divisions or branches

as appropriate as measured by reliability indicators commonly utilized

within the transit industry, including such measures as mean distance

between failures for subway cars, planned number of vehicles with air

conditioning and projected reliability of such equipment, planned

standards for cleanliness of the interior and exterior of subway cars,

commuter rail cars, buses, and passenger stations, and other appropriate

measures of planned performance influencing the quality of services;

c. Level and structure of fares projected for each year of the period

covered by the plan;

d. Estimated operating and capital resources anticipated to be

available from internal sources as well as from federal, state, regional

and local sources;

e. Estimated operating and capital costs to satisfy planned standards

of performance and service;

f. Strategies to improve productivity; control cost growth; integrate

and coordinate the delivery of services provided by the authority as

well as other public and private transportation providers in the service

area;

g. Specific allocation of operating and capital resources by mode and

operation, including funds, personnel, and equipment;

h. Configuration by mode, operation and route of the services to be

provided and the facilities to be operated, identifying major planned

changes in services and routes; and

i. Identification of the operating and capital costs as compared to

the revenues anticipated from system users for the metropolitan

transportation authority and its subsidiaries and the New York city

transit authority and its subsidiary.

j. An analysis of the relationship between specific planned capital

elements contained in approved capital program plans and the achievement

of planned service and performance standards. Such analysis shall

include the relationship of specific planned capital elements to the

achievement of such service and performance standards for each subway

line, bus route or group of bus routes, or commuter rail lines,

divisions or branches as appropriate.

2. Each annual update of the plan shall include a status report

summarizing the extent to which planned service and performance

standards developed for the previous year were achieved, the causes of

any failure to achieve projected standards of service, and corrective

measures the authority intends to take to avoid non-achievement of

projected standards in the next upcoming year.

3. The metropolitan transportation authority shall take into

consideration any petitions from local officials for improved services,

including how these service improvements relate to the service and

performance standards described above, and shall consult with

appropriate local officials in its preparation and periodic updates to

the operation plan.