Design

§   349-c.   Design,   construction,   and   payment   of   costs. 

1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or local law, the commissioner of transportation is authorized and  empowered  to  prepare designs,  plans,  specifications  and  estimates  for  the construction, reconstruction or improvement (1) of any extension  or  continuation  of any highway or route which is now or which shall hereafter be authorized by  section  three  hundred  forty-one  of this chapter, upon any public street or streets in any city outside of the city of New York, which are now or which shall hereafter be designated in this article, and  (2)  of any existing or proposed main routes or thoroughfares in the city of New York;  all of which are designated in this article. Such designs, plans, specifications and estimates may be prepared (a) by  the  department  of transportation; (b) by any city herein named, if the preparation of such designs,  plans,  specifications and estimates are authorized in advance by the commissioner of transportation  and  then  upon  such  terms  and conditions   as  may  be  agreed  by  and  between  such  city  and  the commissioner of transportation; (c)  subject  to  the  approval  of  the director  of  the  budget,  by  the  employment  of private engineers or engineering firms;  or  (d)  by  a  combination  of  such  methods.  The commissioner of transportation may, in his discretion, provide or direct that  there  be  provided  in  such  designs,  plans, specifications and estimates, such  roadside  and  landscape  development,  including  such sanitary  and  other facilities as may be deemed reasonably necessary to accommodate the public; provided however that such development is within the bounds of any property acquired  for  purposes  connected  with  the highway  system  of  the state of New York pursuant to this chapter, and any adjacent publicly owned or controlled recreational areas of  limited size  and  with  provision  for  convenient  and  safe access thereto by pedestrian and vehicular traffic. All references hereinafter contained in this article to the construction of facilities and appurtenances of state highways, or to a section or sections of the arterial system, may be deemed to include the development and facilities mentioned in this paragraph.

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