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uu uiam nntniiw 4 4 '4 4 iw fsi ki ill MTA 'Studies City wide Cuts In Subway Lines, Stations Mi li-1 1 IRT No. 1 line, from 215th, Manhattan, to 242nd Streets, Bronx. 2. IRT No. 2 line, from East 180th to 241st Streets, Bronx.

3. IRT No. 4 line, 161st St (Yankee Stadium) to Wood lawn Avenue, Bronx. 4. IRT No.

5 line, from East 180th Street to Dyre Avenue, Bronx. 5. IND A fine, from Howard Beach to the Rockaways, Queens. 6. BMT fine, from Crescent Street to 121st Street, Queens.

7. BMT line, from Myrtle Avenue to Metropolitan Avenue, Queens. 8. BMT GG line, from Hoyt Street to Queens Plaza, Queens. 9.

IND line, from Kings Highway to West 8th Street, Brooklyn. 10. BMT fine, from 59th Street to Stillwell Avenue, Brooklyn. 11. IND Franklin Avenue shuttle from Prospect Park to Franklin Avenue, Brooklyn.

By Margaret Gordy More than 170,000 Brooklyn, Queens and Bronx residents would lose their subway service under Transit Authority proposals to cut 46 miles of ctty track and 79 stations. The proposed service cuts, submitted for study by the TAs parent Metropolitan Transportation Authority, are preliminary, and based solely on low ridership. They may never be adopted when other fiuton such as the impact on passengers, the environment and this economy are considered, said MTA spokesman Arthur PerfslL But riders advocates such as The Straphangers Campaign, the Committee for Better Transit and City Coun-cilwoman Carol Greitser (D, L-Manhattan) said they were ftirious. Urey charlfi the proposed service cuts were kept secret while the MTA finished the first third of its three-year Strategic Planning Initiative. And, they said the plan may only be a costly political ploy.

-I think the MTA shot itself in the foot by weighting the study in favor of service cuts they never wanted, Straphangers leader Gene Bussianoff said yesterday. "Ifa a stupid and inept campaign to get more money out of the State Legislature, by threatening to dose li unless they get more funding," he claimed. "But it has backfired, by giving transit opponents the ammunition they need to say, Tnstead of giving the MTA more money, why dart we dose down more lines. The areas targeted to be dosed serve only 5 percent of the citys A million average daily ridership. But MTA officials and transit advocates agree that the figure would be much higher if the linos, almost all located in low-income neighborhoods, were in better condition.

Robert Angelone, 29, is typical of those who has left the subways. He pays $15 each weekday in express bus and taxi fares so he can avoid taking the train from his home in Rockaway Beach to his Parks Department job on West 81st Street in Yet Angelone said he would be upset if the MTA adopts one of the proposals to abandon the decrepit from the Rockaways to Howard Beach. "That subway fine is our only 24-hour link to the rest of '-ns County to the rest of the dip, Angelrcv? said. They shouldnt ahaiwUw it, thc should improve it. Id much railcar spend $2 a day to commute than $15, but I cant afford to spend three hours each way on the train.

MTA rfiiwnn Robert Kilty outlined the proposed cuts to transit advocate groups on April 8, Perfidl said. There are 11 targeted areas: portions of the and lines and the entire Franklin shuttle in Brooklyn; parts of the and lines in Brooklyn mi Queens, and sections of the IRT Nos. 1, 2, 4 and 5 lines in the Bronx. The lines, which run through neighborhoods with declining populations, have a combined average weekday ridership of 170,000. The most vulnerable tatyet, the Franklin Avenue shuttle in Brooklyn, needs expensive repairs, but has a weekday ridership of according to TA studies.

This is very when you consider that our most heavily used lin the and along Queens Boulevard carries almost 210,000 people, Continued on Page 27 i si 4 111 jH 4 I i I'i tt i A Metropolitan Avenue QUEENS 121st Street Crescent Street Howard Beach lY, TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 198t Nevada- Pteiip DMoNte.