MTA claims subways are safer while pointing finger at Trump admin for bad rep straphangers still scared stless

A recent rash of violent Big Apple subway attacks has straphangers riding in fear again — even as MTA brass blames the Trump administration for fanning the flames.Metropolitan Transportation Authority member Gerard Bringmann complained Monday about US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s depiction of the subway as dangerous and crime ridden.“Personally, I’m just getting tired of hearing all this from Secretary Duffy about how unsafe our system is and yet the testimony here is we’re bending over backwards to make our system as safe as possible,” Bringmann said during an MTA public safety meeting.“Apparently they’re not getting the message,”But while transit agency bosses maintain the subways are among the safest urban systems in the US, everyday New Yorkers told The Post it’s the MTA that’s not getting the message.

Debbie Fuchs, 68, from the Upper West Side has been catching the subway for 30 years, and said crime is worse than ever. “I’m scared s—tless catching the subway,” Fuchs said Monday.“I’m always looking around for the crazies.

You’re never relaxed on the train. I’m afraid of being shoved on the track. “I don’t stand near the edge of the platform.I’ll stand by a pole and I’ll hang on to it.

I don’t trust anybody on the subway,” she added.“Crime on the subway has been getting worse for the past two years.”Another Manhattanite who asked not to be identified said thanks, but no thanks.

“I used to catch the subway every day.Crime got a lot worse and I stopped catching it entirely,” she said.

“There’s enough crime above ground without exposing yourself below ground.I would go back on the subway if I had a great, big bodyguard.”Duffy has been another critic, and quipped last week that Gov.

Kathy Hochul’s congestion pricing plan, which aims to push more New Yorkers onto a risky subway system, was “liberal insanity.”“She doesn’t ride the subway, she’s got a detail that drives her ar...