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JvJ YJS5WA1 3MT 2 FflOXES (718) 822-1174 Fax (718) 822-1562 Home Delivery 1-800-692-NEWS 1 Mm d3 QOtfd Proposed service changes in the Bronx: BUS SERVICE BxlS: Discontinue Bxl8 service. Alternate service: Bx40, Bx42 buses for some customers. Bx24: Discontinue Bx24 service. wstSL fc FT Ul)(g( IffiJ If Alternate service: Bx7, Bx9, BxlO, Bxl2, Bx20 buses Transit hearing The proposed transit service cuts will be the subject of a public hearing beginning at 6 p.m. tomorrow.

The hearing wilTbe held in the Veterans Memorial Hall of the Bronx County Building, 851 Grand Concourse at E. 161st St Bx3, Bxl3: Discontinue combined Bx3 and Bxl3 service between 1 a.m.- 5 a.m. every day. Alternate service: Bx35, Bx36 buses. Bx55: Shorten route on north end between 1 a.m.- 5 a.m.

every day. During the late night hours only, Bx55 service, which currently operates between E. 149th St. and Gun Hill Road, will terminate at Fordham Road. Alternate service: None.

Bxl4: Discontinue service between 10:30 p.m.-midnight every day. Alternate service: Bx4, Bx40 buses. Bxl7: Discontinue service between 1 a.m.- 5 a.m. every day. Alternate service: Bxl5, Bxl9, Bx55 buses Bx20: Discontinue weekday service between 4:50 a.m.- 5:30 a.m.

and between 11:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m. Discontinue Saturday service between 5:50 a.m.- 7:30 a.m. and between 11 p.m-12:30 a.m. Discontinue Sunday service. Alternate service: Bx7, BxlO buses.

Bx32: Discontinue Saturday and Sunday service between 6:30 a.m.- 7 a.m. and 11 p.m.-12:15 a.m. Alternate service: Bx3, Bx9 buses. SUBWAY SERVICE 161st St. Station (No.

4 IRT Train): Close auxiliary token booth R262 (elevated mezzanine) on weekends. Booth currently operates 6 a.m.- 9 p.m. daily. Alternate booth is located in IND subway mezzanine 310 feet away. transportation.

Most of the publicized cuts seem reasonable and only affect a tiny portion of riders, Harrison conceded. "There are other routes where they're going to be operating fewer buses per hour," said Harrison. "But they refuse to say which routes will be affected." Garden said those reductions have not been determined and are not subject to public hearings. "The actual changes are not yet available," he said. "The staff is still crunching the numbers." Bronx residents are also going to be hurt by the broken promise of the end of two-fare zones, said Harrison.

But Garden said the city and state budget cuts sent NYC Transit from a projected surplus to a projected deficit People who take a bus to a train will continue to pay both fares for the time being, he said. By RAFAEL A. OLMEPA Daily News Staff Writer A New York City Transit proposal to eliminate four local buses and one express bus will be the focus of a public hearing in the borough tomorrow evening. NYC Transit is planning to reduce or eliminate service on 49 routes throughout the city, nine of them in the Bronx. It also wants to eliminate the X32 express bus that runs from Jamaica to the Bronx High School of Science.

Under the proposal, the Bxl8, 24, 3 and 13 lines would be eliminated. Transit officials say they need to plug a $113 million deficit in 1995 that will balloon to $340 million next year. Cuts from the city, state and federal government make the cuts necessary, they say. Termaine Garden, a spokesman for NYC Transit, said 30 of the cuts will be made in administrative areas. Service reductions and increased pro- ductivity will account for the rest Paul Harrison, program coordinator for Transportation Alternatives, said riders should be skeptical about the need for service cuts.

"Riders should start wondering if they're having the wool pulled over their eyes," said Harrison, whose group encourages the use of public and nonpolluting forms of loardl fears toss off (sitjy seiruises By BOB KAPPSTATTER Iff! (J jj I I I 1 ii- It 'He fvi '1 i ii 1 1 f' I i i A I i IP i -I- III tj 1 1 ifi III if fNS AmJ Jsk- Daily News Bronx Bureau Chief An east Bronx community board battling against losing one of its neighborhoods is fighting mad that it also will lose several cops and perhaps even fire and sanitation services. Community Board 9 has scheduled a town hall meeting for tomorrow night to protest the possible removal of police officers from its precinct if the Zerega community with its roughly 10,000 residents shifts to Community Board 10 jurisdiction. The City Council Committee on Governmental Affairs held a stormy public hearing on the Zerega issue at Borough Hall last month, and the full Council must vote on the proposed shift before June 1. Community Board 10 had voted to accept Zerega and its Westchester Square commercial district only if the 45th Precinct receives enough cops to cover the area, which is served by three precincts. But Community Board 9 Chairwoman Elizabeth Rodriguez said yesterday she has learned that the 43d Precinct which serves the Board 9 area, would lose six police officers in the move.

"For the last 14 months they've been assuring us we were not going to lose services of any kind," said Rodriguez. She said that while the 43d Precinct has the highest crime rate in the borough, the 45th has the lowest. Also, Rodriguez added, while 45th Precinct staffing is eight cops short of what is called for under the Safe Streets, Safe City formula, the 43d is 30 cops short Rodriguez added that her board also has been told that it would lose some fire and sanitation services if the move went through. "We are going to stage a protest against the whole redisricting issue if we are going to lose any services at all," she said. The town hall meeting will be at 7 p.m.

at Stevenson High School, 1980 Lafayette near Pugsley Ave. For further information, call Board 9 at (718) CO MICHAEL SCHWARTZ KEEPING ICE COOL, five kids wait Courtlandt Ave. Early morning rain today should keep for their moms to finish banking on E. 149th St. near the temperatures in the 50s, we're told..