Fed study rips Cuo’s LaG train

A federal review of Gov. Cuomo’s widely panned La Guardia Airport AirTrain project accused officials of using “arbitrary” criteria to ensure the plan was chosen above all others — and concluded the railway would likely be slower than just driving to the transportation hub, newly revealed documents show.

E-mails and documents obtained by environmental group Riverkeeper this week through a Freedom of Information Law request show Federal Aviation Administration officials in 2019 peppered the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey with concerns about its rationale for rejecting alternatives to the pricey project — although the feds are now poised to green-light it.

“They called out the draft for being deficient,” said Riverkeeper’s Mike DuLong. “And then FAA did its own analysis and came to the exact same conclusion and they have some of the exact same missteps.”

Critics have blasted the planned $2 billion train’s bizarre “wrongway” route — which goes past Citi Field instead of toward Manhattan.

The analysis indicated federal officials believed there were “fundamental” flaws in the PA’s claims that the AirTrain could enable travel between Manhattan and the airport in a 30-minute timeframe via the LIRR.

To get to La Guardia from Manhattan in under 30 minutes, travelers would have to start the clock on the platform at Penn Station — where a train would have to be waiting and about to leave, the FAA wrote. A Port Authority spokesperson defended the FAA’s review as a “thorough process.”