Gov rides the ‘ain’t it great’ express train

GOV. CUOMO took a victory lap around a 207th St. subway repair shop Friday after he forced the city to pony up more than $400 million for emergency fixes.

Cuomo (below) and labor leaders, along with Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Joe Lhota, checked out the 207th St. overhaul shop together to see the Subway Action Plan in action.

A day before joining the workers who make the trains run, the governor celebrated his win among the city’s business class. At a brunch at Cipriani Wall Street hosted by the Association for a Better New York, Cuomo spoke at length about his Action Plan, with Lhota on the stage with him.

But on Friday, it was all blue collars and boots at the 207th St. shop where city subway cars are overhauled.

“What you’re going to be seeing over the next few weeks is the ramp up, operation by operation,” Cuomo said. “Hopefully, over the next several months you’ll see this plan fully phased in, fully operationalized and then you start to get the level of repairs we should have been making.”

Transit and labor officials had been demanding the city pay half of the $836 million Subway Action Plan, the short-term effort to stop the deterioration of the transit system launched in July. The city had refused.

But Cuomo and state lawmakers forced the mayor’s hand in the budget — and now the city is paying up.

That means 500 more workers — 1,400 instead of the current 900 — to fix cars, signals and tracks under the Subway Action Plan, Lhota said.

John Samuelsen, head of the Transport Workers Union, ripped into Mayor de Blasio, calling him a “disgrace” after the city opened its purse.

Eric Phillips, a spokesman for the mayor, shot back at both Cuomo and Samuelsen.

“The governor is using transportation workers’ money to campaign for another four years of running the subways.We’ll let the public decide how well that’s been working,” he said.