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   performancestandards  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.