The Traffic Engineer shall have the authority to determine the
installation and proper timing and maintenance of traffic control
devices, to conduct engineering analyses of accidents and to devise
remedial measures, to conduct engineering investigation of traffic
conditions and to cooperate with other City officials, agencies, departments
and advisory commissions in the development of ways and means to improve
traffic conditions and to carry out the additional powers and duties
imposed by ordinances of this City.
The Traffic Engineer is hereby authorized:
A. To designate and maintain crosswalks, by appropriate devices, marks
or lines upon the surface of the roadway, at intersections where there
is danger to pedestrians crossing the roadway and at such other places
as he may deem necessary.
B. To establish safety zones of such kind and character and at such
places as he may deem necessary for the protection of pedestrians.
C. To mark lanes for traffic on street pavements at such places as he
may deem advisable, consistent with the traffic ordinances of this
City.
The Traffic Engineer shall have authority, as provided in this
section, to establish a temporary zone of quiet upon any street where
a person is seriously ill, if requested by a written statement of
at least one registered physician certifying to its necessity. A temporary
zone of quiet shall embrace all territory within a radius of 200 feet
of the building occupied by the person named in the request. A temporary
zone of quiet and any other zone of quiet declared by any ordinance
of this City shall be designated by the Traffic Engineer by placing
a sign or marking bearing the words "Quiet Zone" at a conspicuous
place in the street.
The Traffic Engineer is hereby authorized to issue to any owner
of a vehicle used to transport merchandise or materials a special
permit, renewable annually, and to state therein the terms and conditions
thereof, allowing the driver of such vehicle the privilege of loading
and unloading while the vehicle is backed against the curb if such
privilege is reasonably necessary in the conduct of the owner's business
and will not significantly interfere with safe and smooth flow of
traffic.
The Traffic Engineer is hereby authorized and required to establish
bus stops and stands for other passenger common-carrier motor vehicles
on such public streets in such places and in such number as he shall
determine to be of the greatest benefit and convenience to the public,
and every such bus stop or other stand shall be designated by appropriate
signs, subject to approval of the City Council by ordinance.
Whenever, by any ordinance of this City, a one-way street is
described or any time-limit parking is imposed, it shall be the duty
of the Traffic Engineer to erect appropriate signs giving notice thereof,
and no such regulations shall be effective until said signs are erected.
In addition to the powers given to the Traffic Engineer in the
preceding sections of this article, and anything herein contained
to the contrary notwithstanding, and in the exercise of the powers
conferred upon the City Council by the Vehicle and Traffic Law, the
Traffic Engineer is hereby designated as the municipal officer authorized
and empowered to designate by regulation safety zones, parking spaces
and bus stands in the public streets of the City of Yonkers and to
limit or prohibit parking in such zones, spaces and stands when marked
and indicated by suitable signs. The Traffic Engineer is designated
as the municipal officer authorized and empowered to designate highways
in which vehicles shall pass in one direction only or from which heavy
trucks shall be excluded. Highways so designated shall be marked at
all intersections by conspicuous signs which shall be visible during
the hours in which such designation is to be observed. In any case
where a traffic regulation is made by the Traffic Engineer in order
to exercise any of the foregoing powers, such regulation must, before
it takes effect, be published at least once in each week for two successive
weeks in the official newspapers of the City. Any regulation, rule
or designation made by the Traffic Engineer under the power given
or delegated to that officer by the provisions of this section shall,
upon its taking effect, supersede the provisions of any existing ordinance
which became effective prior to May 9, 1939, that may conflict with
or pertain in any way to the subject matter of such regulation, rule
or designation.