Disowning the MTA

Frustrated by a week of bad news about the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Gov. Cuomo on Thursday opted to suggest he doesn’t really control the agency.

“I have representation on the board,” the gov told reporters. “The city of New York has representation on the board, so does Nassau, Suffolk, Dutchess, Putnam, Rockland, other counties, OK?”

In fact, he has the most appointees, including the chairman and CEO. If he says “frog,” the MTA jumps. And just weeks ago he was all over the opening of the new Second Avenue line.

Indeed, Cuomo’s fingerprints were all over the MTA’s urgent Monday release of a six-point plan to . . . well, to make that morning’s New York Times headlines about declining service go away.

The plan’s points weren’t bad, just incapable of delivering major improvements anytime soon. And the only point that’s actually new is the who-cares splitting of the jobs of CEO and chairman, which were merged just a few years ago.

Yet not one of the action items will quickly address the woes flagged by the Straphangers Campaign and Riders Alliance, such as service alerts that have risen steadily since 2011. Major incidents delay up to 50 trains a month on the Eighth Avenue line, for example.

Mayor de Blasio rightly blasted Cuomo’s dodge as a “fantasy.” Fair enough; the mayor’s understandably frustrated over the fact that so many people think he’s in charge of the subways.

(Be glad he’s not: De Blasio’s mismanagement record already includes disasters on issues from homelessness to jails to protecting endangered children.)

As for the governor: Sorry, Andrew — the whole “alternative facts” thing doesn’t fly any better in New York than in Washington.