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7f gve me more allowance, I can add a few more cars' By RICHARD EDMONDS in the railroad's Morris Park yard in a building that was built in 1873. Need we say more? $20 million is budgeted for LIRR shop improvements. Conrail shop improvements. Total cost: $10 million. According to the Department of Transportation, the New York metropolitan area would receive $675 million worth of transportation improvements if the package was approved.

Upstate localities would get the balance. issue has strong bipartisan support, from Mayor Koch on down, with industry and labor leaders solidly behind it Unlike its predecessor, the mammoth $2.3 billion transportation bond issue of 1971, which was quashed at the polls, Proposition One is not a "pie-in-the-sky" referendum. Harry Stanton, a Department of Trans- 1 reopen the city to rail freight Cost: $45 million. 70 LIRR electric cars. More than 3.000 LIRR commuters are forced to stand in the aisles each day.

These new cars would alleviate overcrowding. Total cost: $70 million. 60 Conrail electric cars. The be-Ieaguered Conrail fleet is on the brink of mechanical collapse. This order would increase the fleet by 20.

Total cost: $70 million. 15 Conrail self-propelled diesel cars. Passage to Conrad's outer limits in upstate to Poughkeepsie and Dover Plains is at best a chancy bet Commuters "would now ride in style Total Cost: $12 million. West Side Storage Yard. Called "the crown jewel" of Proposition One, the LIRR's planned, storage yard in back of Penn Station on Manhattan's West Side ing political races on the ballot will probably vote against the bond issue.

"There's not much in it for concedes Stanton. "If I lived there, I'd be hard-pressed to approve additional government spending." Second, a tough cadre of anti-bond issue elected officials is against the referendum. SSEMBLYMAN JERROLD Nad- ler(D-L-Manhattan) has argued that the bond issue does not provide enough to city taxpayers, who ride the subways. "We will pay 41 in taxes for debt service on the bonds, but we get only 31 worth of the improvements," Nadler argues. Rep.

Ted Weiss (D-New York) agrees with Nadler. "This whole thing is a ripoff," Weiss says. Both he, Nadler and Committee for Better Transit a city-based subway rider advocate group, are dead set against the plan because, they argue. New Yorkers should expect- and get more. They urge the defeat of this issue in the hope that another, bigger and better, may take its place on the ballot in the near future.

Gov. Carey further confused the issue last month when he told a group of -reporters that the 50-cent fare would be "endangered" if the bond issue failed to Those who use New York's subways should also consider using the city's ballot boxes on Election Day DRIGHTENING THE BALLOT on this dullest of political off years is Proposition One. the state's $500 million permission slip to borrow money for mass transit Sixteen days from now, the handful of' voters expected to turn out for New York City's candidateless election will decide the immediate fate of the subways and the Long Island Rail Road. The bond issue will be. on the ballot throughout the state, but it's the metropolitan area that would reap the benefits if it passed Those who remember Election Day will rule on the state's request to buy a raft of new and rehabilitated subway cars, new shops and a storage yard for the LIRR and rolling stock for Conrail.

hefty shopping list will be supported by an additional $300 million in Tribo rough Bridge and Tunnel Authority bonds. Because the TBTA does not require permission to borrow money, those bonds will be floated automatically upon the approval of Proposition One. There is another $180 million id federal and local matching funds waiting to be thrown into the pot, too. Specifically, this is what the state promises to buy with the money: 260 new IRT subway cars. The cars, already in the design stage thanks to a $425,000 budget appropriation from the Legislature, will be relatively unsophisticated, air-conditioned "workhorses," unlike the.

trouble-plagued R-46 cars, the newest current model. They will be 60-feet long instead of the standard 50-foot IRT length. Total cost: $190 million. 280 rehabilitated "B-di vision" IND and BMT cars. The B-division has been burned by several vintages of unreliable, defective cars.

Insiders say that the R-16 model is the prime candidate for complete overhaul, including air conditioning. The rejuvenated cars will use a conventional propulsion system unlike the R-46 four-motor unit Total cost: $98 million. Rail freight improvements. Modern freight cars cannot get into New York City because our rail freight system has not been improved since the turn of the century. The bond issue would pay for pass.

His remarKs made rage une Deadlines. Then four days later, he took it back. The governor's friends said carey was merely trying to whip up support for the issue. Another concern among transportation buffs is the fact that Tribo rough Bridge and Tunnel Authority profits are plowed back into the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in order to subsidize the subway fare. Opponents of the issue wonder what will happen to that money if bridge and tunnel revenues are diverted to pay debt service on the $300 million TBTA component "Don't worry about that" scoffed a Transportation Department administrator.

"We can always raise the tolls." He quickly pointed out unlike Carey that he was only half seroius. In any case the bond issue is of major concern to New Yorkers and well worth that trip to the polls Nov. 6. Richard Edmonds writes on transportation issues for The News. would solve a costly almost ludicrous -problem for the railroad: Each day the LIRR shuttles 800 cars without passengers back and forth to terminals in eastern Long Island.

Two hundred of these cars travel all the way to Babylon. This wasteful movement of cars, called deadhead runs, is necessary because the railroad does not have space to keep them in Manhattan after the morning rush hour. JHE TRAINS COME in during the I morning, then are turned and sent LJ out empty to await the evening rush. In the evening the trains are sent back into Manhattan, still empty, in order to pick up homebound commuters. For this, the LIRR pays an extra $805,000 in Con Ed bills each year, not to mention the wear and tear on the equipment, which cuts car life in half Estimated cost: $100 million.

LIAR shop improvements: Repairs portation planner, notes: "The need for this is right now. It will not meet all our it's a compromise. The equipment we want is available. The new subway cars will be running on the tracks within three years. In fact, all the projects are ready to go." Stanton adds that hypothetically if half the automobiles were taken away from their owners in Denver or Portland, mass transit ridership in those cities would skyrocket 1000.

"Take away half the cars owned by New Yorkers, and mass transit ridershiop would increase maybe 59b," Stanton says. "We are that dependent on the subways and the LIRR." Nevertheless, the bond issue faces many obstacles. First because this is an unusually dull political year. New Yorkers are not expected to getout of bed and vote in great numbers on Election Day. To make matters worse, voters in upstate Erie County and in Suffolk, where there are interest- improvements to widen tunnel ana bridge a first to on the LIRR's modern Ml cars are done it would be 3V 'si i-TT Iftr.