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.18 DAILY NEWS" Friday, September 1, 1989 NEW YORK, IT'S A HACK OF A TOWN TLC takes trainees for a ride By JOEL SIEGEL Daily News Staff Writer Rest assured that at least ing now know the Bronx is up down. To prepare for a career were chauffered around New the Taxi and Limousine 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 car washed," guide Paul Schlictman, 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 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, Danyang 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 Bahaa 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 LaGuardia, 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. Everybody ranting about." said 20 cabbies-in-trainand the Battery driving others, they York yesterday as Commission began 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 Bahaa Mohammed Gulam Mustafa Choudry, formerly of Pakistan. Welcome to New York, Gulam. is 1 TOUR TRAINING WHERE ARE THEY? Taxi commission tour aims to improve trainees listen as guide fills them in cab service. on the ways to get 'round our town. ROBERT ROSAMILIO Md.

bridge collapses-14 hurt LAUREL, Md. A bridge being built over the Baltimore- 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 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. A Maryland State police spokesman said the collapse caused tremendous traffic backups. The southbound parkway was closed at Route 32, and traffic was being detoured.

Gov. William Donald Schaefer said he expected the roadway to be opened within 24 hours. "Everyone's question is why, but it's impossible to tell," Schaefer said. Investigators from the Maryland Safety and Health Administration and the Federal Highway Administration Charged in doc's stabbing A Manhattan grand jury charged a robbery armed robbery in upper Manhattan, threatsuspect with attempted murder in the stab- ened to kill Levine. He then snatched her pen bing of a Bellevue psychiatrist, the district at- from her hand and stabbed her in the neck torney's office said yesterday.

and forehead, police said. A prison guard staCurtis Sessions, 32, was indicted on tioned outside the door subdued Sessions afcharges of second-degree attempted murder ter hearing Levine's cries for help. The psyand second-degree assault in the Aug. 16 chiatrist received a few stitches and a stabbing of Martha Levine as she interviewed tetanus shot. him during a psychiatric examination in If convicted, Sessions faces up to 25 years Bellevue Hospital's 19th-floor prison ward.

in prison. Sessions, already a suspect in a Nov. 11 Frances McMorris Taxi DAILY NEWS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 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 was found to have sunk several inches..