The city transit system “pisses away’’ billions of dollars over fare evasion while still tolerating such quality-of-life outrages as open urination on its trains, a Bronx congressman seethed Friday.
Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) tweeted video showing just how much subway conditions have gone down the toilet — with a rider caught brazenly urinating straight into the aisle on a No. 7 train.
The man’s rude act occurred in full view of at least three people on the train, who watched as he lay sprawled across several seats while his urine ran down the car toward the person filming before it pooled under other passengers’ feet.
But when asked for comment, the MTA washed its hands of the disgusting incident.
MTA rep Kayla Shults declined comment to The Post on the video — and instead pointed to the NYPD for answers.
“This is not a new video,’’ Shults claimed — while refusing to say when it was taken.
“NYPD is responsible for patrolling the subways,” the representative added before simply sharing the MTA’s Rules of Conduct.
Asked whether MTA workers could intervene if they witnessed such an illegal action, another rep, Eugene Resnick, replied, “We run a transit agency, our focus is mass transit.”
The NYPD did not respond to a Post request for comment.
But Torres had plenty to say about the footage, which he tweeted on X after it was “liked’’ nearly 9,000 times on Instagram, where it first surfaced.
“A mentally disturbed person is publicly urinating in the subway, pissing on a public transit system that pisses away $700 million a year in fare evasion,” Torres raged on the site.
“Why do we accept this? New York can do better than what a broken system can deliver.”
Torres, a former city councilman elected to Congress in 2020, has been a vocal critic of the public transit system and Gov. Kathy Hochul.
He has ripped her for things such as her infamous flip-flop on the hotly controversial upcoming congestion pricing toll in Manhattan, under which drivers will be forced to cough up another $9 to enter Midtown.
Hochul was at first in favor of the planned new toll, then paused its implementation before the November elections, then announced days later that it would be moving ahead again.
Advocates say it is a must to pay for needed transit repairs and expansions, while foes say it is nothing more than a new commuter tax to bail out a bloated bureaucratic agency.
Torres told The Post on Friday that the video of the subway urination was just another “sign of lawlessness and disorder in Kathy Hochul’s New York.
“New York can do better than Kathy Hochul,” he said.
Hochul’s camp did not immediately respond to a Post request for comment.