Newsday from New York, New York • 10

RtLtattxiJiui mrnirciiania'VK xamwi Port Authority Shines Up Its Imagb New York For commuters end long-distance travelers alike the Port Authority Bus Terminal is too often a sour taste of the Big Apple the terminal technically the eity responsibility Vanacore borrowed a street sweeper from Lincoln Tunnel (another PA (jperatum) and the curb are swept each night a Operating boundaries have bean established for groups that cry to buttonhole travelers in ana causa or soother The 43 escalators era bring replaced under a $4-million contract as part of the modernisation program The old escalators still work and are safe but an increasingly costly and money to maintain Completion of (ha bus terminal extension originally was scheduled for early next year but delays caused by construction industry ririksa have now pushed that data hack to lata 1979 or early 1980 Vanacore said However modernisation alone will not change the bus image Goldmark said Set one block west of Times Square it cannot help but be effected by the seedy atmosphere of that crossroads Ha ia cautiously hopeful of change oven there because the Port Authority the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and private interests in the area have begun working together "to upgrade a lot of the public transportation facilities beyond the bus With such a cooperative effort "wa may really ha able to achieve critical maaa to change the atmosphere and the environment of the whole 42nd Street area which is in the long run the only way our facility can roach standards wa want to ha Itioning and woraout escalators of derelicts con artists and haranguing crusaders Now the officials who run the sprawling terminal say they intend to change that picture They have in-' creased police patrols are installing new air conditioning and escalators and are curbing the buttonholing crur Baders And starting next week they will -have uniformed attendants in some restrooms for security "We are going to put in whatever it takes to pick that place up by its bootstraps and make it a first-class service and a first-class facility" said Peter Goldmark' Jr executive di- rector of the Port Authority of New' York and New Jersey winch owns the terminal Tt is not safe enough now it is not clean enough now" he said thumping the table in his World Trads Center office for emphasis As the nearly 200000 pasengers who uae tlui terminal each dav know the PA is embarked on a $160 million OTpanmnn that will add 75 bus loading positions by extending the terminal north a block to 42nd Street At the same time the existing building is bring modernized "We have a unique opportunity that comes only once or twice every Goldmark said of the construction "We have a new physical building which means you can re- -think everything from To lead that rethinking Goldmark last May named Joseph Vanacore former general manager of Newiark International Airport as the Port director of terminals The first thing Vanacore did was to ask the people who use the terminal IP PMa As the sign says The New Port' plans on sprucing up its soiled reputation what they thought Of 80000 questionnaires handed out 20000 came back-the largest response ever for such a PA survey The survey results are not yet tallied but Vanacore knows for example from letters he has received that people fori unsafe in the restrooms Vanacore said crime statistics show the terminal is relatively safe but "statistics wont satis-doesnt feel Therefore he said uniformed atten dants will staff certain and rooms Signs will be posted to show which restrooms are attended Vanacore said "Wa think going to bs a major help to create a safe atmosphere" Other innovations undertaken since Vanacore took oven Lights that had been turned off aa part of the Fort energy conservation program have been turned back on To help clean up the area outside Goldmark who last mdnth marked his first year as head of the PA said the bus terminal "is a good example of where we have to do a lot bettor in business that been in long time just called going back to hiaip end ftinde mantel j1 1 Poll Finds Carey Duryea Evenly Matched ence for Duryea For example while Carey gets the support of 87 per cent of Democrats who are agauut the death penalty he is bring supported by 60 per cent of those who are for the death penalty Similarly he ia preferred by 71 per cent of the Catholics who are against the death penalty but only by 88 per cent of the Catholics who are for the death penalty And while 85 per cent of those who said that they voted for Carey in 1974 and are against the death penalty are currently sup 51 per cent of those who said they1 who disagree with Carey on the death penalty end plan to vote against him might vote against him for other reasons as well In fact when the polled voters were asked how important seven different campaign issues were to them the death penalty ran third for behind crime and state taxes and spending Crime was considered "very by 92 per cent state taxes and spending tor 89 per cent the death penalty tor 69 per cent ths support for New York City by 58 per cent abortion by 48 per cent the personality by 28 per cent and the political party by 22 per cent Further when asked to name the single most influential issue to them 43 per cent identified state taxes and spending 31 per cent nmrf crime and only 18 per cent mentioned the death penalty NEXT: The Attorney General Race years ago and are for ths death penalty are behind him now Still position on the death penalty may not ha fatal to his yjnthwitWjindiTip the support it is costing him he retains majority of the Democrats liberals and 1974 supporters who take issue with him on capital punishment It also should be noted that some of the voters him from Page 5 I per cent of supporters said they were voting for the governor while 60 per cent of Duryea? backers said they were voting against Carey In i suck a situation Carey would appear to hold the initiative and given his power of office the oppor- tunity as well to woo voters who now favor Duryea However Carey is not especially popular Fifty i- per cent of those interviewed said they nave an un-favorable opinion of him compared with 47 per I cent who view him favorably Further half of that group (26 per cent) said their opinion was unfavorable While people may change such opinions and even perhaps vote for someone despite an unfavorable opinion of him there is no doubt that the substantial body of negative feeling represents a formidable obstacle- for Carey in his quest for more votes By contrast Duryea despite far lower visibil-ity 20 per cent of those interviewed said thfey ei- ther had no opinion of him (16 per cent) or had nev-er heard of him (4 per has a 54 per cent vorable rating and only a 26 per cent unfavorable rating That gives him the potential as he becomes better known to enhance his popularity Carey lacks a similar potential since only 2 per cent said they had no opinion of him and just 1 per cent said they had never heard of him One nuyor factor influencing voter attitudes toward Carey is his veto of capital-punishment legis- latum and his assertion that he would commute any death sentence that might have been imposed had his veto been overridden The poll shows that the state's voters support the death penalty for convicted murderers by a ra- tio of almost 4:1 (68-18 per-cent) and that those favor it prefer Duryea to Carey by 56-37 cent while the smaller group opposing it Carey to Duryea by 74-22 per cent Analysis indicates that opposition to the death penalty ia costing him support In i ennitiMiny tTVmMinrallilmrsls Cath- )i olios SnA particularly thoee griuraay theyvotedfor whefthe voters who back the death penalty express a prefer How the Poll Was Taken nua about 4 per cent that is 95 times out of 100 the responses of the sample would differ by no more than that percentage from the responses of ail New Yorkers of voting age Because of imperfect sampling or interviewing procedures the actual margin of error may be greater Research Analysis Corp is a public affairs polling and market research firm that conducted the New York State Poll in 1976 and 1978 with final projections that came within two percentage points of the results Irwin (Tubby) Harrison who designed this survey is a native New Yorker and former Great Neck resident He is a graduate at Columbia College and Harvard Law School and baa beat conducting such polls for aew8paper8'since-l968 vv- iid hs vje The New York State Poll conducted by Re-March Analysis Corp of Boston and commie- sioned by Newsday and the Gannett News Service is based on telephone interviews conducted between Sept 13 and 17 with 2000 state residents who said they were registered to vote and certainly or probably would do so on Nov 7 Voters in Nassau and Suffolk Counties were (that is the percentage of voters in thine counties questioned was larger than the percentage of Nassau-Sufifolk voters in the electorate) to permit more detailed analysis but in the statewide totals their preferences were weighted in proportion to the share of the registered si voters The statistical margin of error using a sample of- approximately 2000 is plus or nri-1 rtvj-l tLfTS iv A.