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'tC FBday? September-1, 1989 DAM.Y NEWS" 7 1 na(s Z1- -'A VK If A A i I WSIDIIO By JOEL SIEGEt Daily Nw A'itr Rest assured that at least 20 cabbies-in-training now know the Bronx is up and the Battery is down. To prepare for a career driving others, they were chauffered around New York yesterday as the Taxi and Limousine Commission began dtkE i liko to make good money. Iff make good money, I like driving. If I don't make good money, I don't like the Bshaa Mohtmmtd Gulam Mustafa Choudry, formerly of Pakistan. Welcome to New York, 1m WHERE ARE THEY? Taxi trainees listen as guide fills them in on the commission tour aims to improve cab service.

an. Mdlge (Mlaips- mandatory sightseeing tours by bus for new hacks. It's a New York tour unlike any other; instead of learning about Greenwich Village, for example, wannabe cabbies are told the best way to drive through it They get in-the-field instruction about routes, traffic patterns and where to find riders. They also get tips on how to get tips. Clean Is keen "It's good to get your cai washed," guide Paul Schlict-man, a former cabby, told them yesterday.

"When people have a choice, they will select a cab that is clean, neat and well driven." The tours are part of a TLC drive to improve cab service by expanding cabby training. The effort comes as complaints of unknowledgeable drivers are rising. The TLC also hopes the training will lower frustration among new hacks and reduce the attrition rate 504 quit after four months. TLC Chairman Jack Lusk said. The cabbies aboard for yesterday's tour included Shan Alam Mohammed from Bangladesh, Antoine Leger from Haiti, Alexander Rosenberg from the Soviet Union.

Dan-yang Zhao from China and Lorenzo Rios from Peru, all hoping to find gold In New York's streets. Hoping to profit "I like to make good money. If I make good money, I like driving. If I don't make good money, I don't like the job." said Buhaa Mohammed, 32, formerly of Egypt Some of the new hacks seemed a bit bewildered. Not only were they trying to master New York's streets, they also had trouble understanding English.

The scene aboard the bus didn't help. It was as crowded as the taxi line at LaOuardia, with reporters, four TV camera crews, assorted TLC officials and even Mayor Koch -who visited briefly with the cabbies moving up and down the aisle. "Too much confusion. ojboVt! rd, Police and rescue teams from Anne Arundel, Howard and Prince George's Counties hurried to the scene, with two Medevac helicopters and two rescue buses. Four of the injured were in a car crushed under the overpass.

Another was in a second car hit by debris, while the other nine were construction workers. Rescue and construction workers drilled holes into the rubble and carried away debris a piece at a time searching for other vehicles, but they found none. THI OSSOCIATtD Mill LUREL. Md. A bridge being built over the Baltimore-Washington Parkway collapsed without warning during yesterday's morning rush hour, raining tons of debris on commuters and injuring 14 people, state police said.

A woman was in critical condition after the collapse of the Route 198 overpass over the parkway, where workers had been pouring 140 tons of a scheduled 200 tons of concrete. Maryland police, U.S. Park ways to get 'round our town. Taxi romkt rosamiuo daily news BDonirfi were on the scene. A spokesman said the supports for the molds into which the concrete was being poured had been inspected and approved in July.

Manhattan Bridge work due to start Repairs to the Manhattan Bridge should begin next week after hairline cracks and corrosion were found on seven steel roadway supports, the city Transportation Department said. The defects were detected during a routine inspection Tuesday by city bridge inspectors. "None of these are red-flag conditions, which means there is no immediate danger." Transportation Department spokesman Victor Ross said. The defects were found on seven of nine steel supports beneath the roadway on the Brooklyn side of the bridge. The roadway is scheduled for major repairs in 1996, Ross said.

Last January, a piece of the deck leading to the bridge in Brooklyn was found to have' A Maryland State police spokesman said the collapse caused tremendous traffic backups. The southbound parkway was closed at Route 32, and traffic was being de-toured. Gov. William Donald Schaefer said he expected the roadway to be opened within 24 hours. "Everyone's question is why, but it impossible to tell," Schaefer said.

Investigators from the Maryland Safety and Health Administration and the Federal Highway Administration Frances McMorris armed robbery in upper Manhattan, threatened to kill Levine. He then snatched her pen from her hand and stabbed her in the neck and forehead, police said. A prison guard stationed outside the door subdued Sessions after hearing Levine's cries for help. The psychiatrist received a few stitches and a tetanus shot. If convicted, Sessions faces up to 25 years A Manhattan grand jury charged a robbery suspect with attempted murder in the stabbing of a Bellevue psychiatrist, the district attorney's office said yesterday.

Curtis Sessions. 32, was indicted on charges of second-degree attempted murder and second-degree assault in the Aug. 16 stabbi ng of Martha Levine as she i nterviewed him during a psychiatric examination in Bellevue Hospital's 19th-floor prison ward. Sessions, already a suspect in a Nov. 11 lit I 4 in prison..