Chaos-mode agency’sy pplea to employers

LIRR service is going to be so hellish this summer that the MTA is begging businesses to let their commuters work off-hours — or better yet, let them not come into the city at all.

“This is really an all-hands-ondeck action plan,” said MTA Executive Director Ronnie Hakim as the agency grapples with the nightmarish scenario of upcoming track repairs at Penn Station.

“It’s going to be a long, hot summer,” he added.

The unprecedented move is part of a new MTA “awareness campaign’’ to remind riders of the expected travel turmoil while Amtrak performs the repairs, according to agency officials.

This week, the MTA will begin sending “letters to employers encouraging flexible work hours and locations” — like their homes — between July 10 and at least Sept. 1, Hakim said.

The agency wouldn’t say which businesses were going to receive the requests, but it didn’t matter to riders — whoho roundly accused thehe agency of going offff the rails with thehe plan.

“They think theyey can just tell peoplele when to go to work?”?” rider Lisa Gorden,n, 38, who lives nearar Valley Stream, LI,I, asked. “It doesn’tn’t work like that!”

Twitter user @Lancealotlinks added, “Working ‘odd hours’ is an unacceptable solution for some parents.’’

Even City Hall thumbed its nose at the plan. Asked whether the city would allow its workers to rearrange their schedules to avoid the LIRR during rush hours, mayoral spokesman Ben Sarle told The Post, “We don’t have any announcements coming up regarding remote work.

“We are advising employees to adjust their commutes appropriately’’ given the expected train delays, he said in an e-mail.

“In the past, even in significant weather events, city employees are expected to report to work to make sure the city runs as smoothly as possible for the sake oof all New Yorkers.” The MTA plan was devised by a 15member volunteer task force that included Joe Lhota, the agency’s former chairman. Hakim said the MTA is also working on other ways to help commuters affected by Amtrak’s summer construction. For example, the MTA plans to add new LIRR trains during rush hour, lengthen the existing trains and add bus and ferry services to and from Long Island, according to the agency. Three new Penn Station-bound trains will be added to the early part of the morning rush and two more to the evening rush, said MTA spokesman Aaron Donovan. Still, two trains will be canceled during the morning rush and 13 will terminate at an earlier station. Seven will be canceled during the evening rush and 10 terminated elsewhere.

Three overnight trains between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. will be canceled, according to the agency.

Meanwhile, two new ferry routes — one beginning in Glen Cove, LI, and the other in Long Island City, Queens — will accommodate about 2,400 commuters, the MTA explained.

Eight park-and-ride buses also will run from 6 to 10 a.m. and 4 to 7 p.m. to bring passengers from various parts of Long Island to Midtown Manhattan, officials said.

The services will be free to LIRR monthly and weekly ticket holders. All ticket holders will also be granted free morning subway transfers.

The Amtrak construction will take place every day of the week, with some tracks out of commission around the clock, Amtrak CEO Wick Moorman said in April.

The repairs will affect 9,600 commuters, according to MTA officials on Monday. Additional reporting by Gina Daidone