Rahm Emanuel pokes fun at NYC’s transit woes

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel threw shade on the Big Apple’s subway system in an — boasting about mass transit in the Second City, a place so violent that President Trump last week sent in the feds to help stop the bloodshed.

In an essay in the New York Times titled, “In Chicago, the Trains Actually Run on Time,” former President Barack Obama’s onetime chief of staff referenced last week’s subway derailment, “an epidemic of train delays,” and Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s declaration of a state of emergency for the MTA.

“Meanwhile, in Chicago, a recent survey💎 found that 85 percent of passengers are satisfied with service on our transit system, the nation’s second most used,” he wrote.

He also noted that Chicago scored a huge gift from Obama in the form of federal cash. But w🐟hile the trains may run on time, violence remains out of control compared to Gotham.

Emanuel boasted that in Chicago, existing lines and stations were being rebuilt, and that by focusingﷺ on maintenance rather than expansion, the city had been able to avoid the kind of frequent problems plaguing New York and Washington, DC.

By June 30, there were 1,703 shooting victims in Chicago this year and 320 homicides, according to police stats.

In New York, 127 peopl🅰e have been murdered in 2017 and 434 were shot, according 🍬to the NYPD.

Mayor Bill 🧜de Blasio declined to take the bait, but Joe Lhota, who recently returned as MTA chairman, fired back.

“The Mayor of Chicago ꦆwould seem to have enou🐈gh of his own problems to focus on without trying to save face by capitalizing on someone else’s crisis,” he said.

Emanuel’s office said last week that 20 extra agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,𝄹 Firearms andꦜ Explosives had been assigned to Chicago to help stop crime and seize illegal guns.

On Friday, Trump twee🐻ted, “Crime and killings💃 in Chicago have reached such epidemic proportions that I am sending in Federal help. 1714 shootings in Chicago this year!”

A spokesman for de Bla꧑sio said, “We are looking forward 🎀to the plans that the new MTA leadership is developing.”

Neither Cuomo nor the🃏 White house immediately responded to a request for comment.

But some🦩 Chicagoans were less than impresse🍃d with Emanuel’s piece.

“Given that New York City’s annual transit ridership pushes over 1.5 billion (as opposed to Chicago’s just 237 million) and New York has more than three times the train stations, any comparison to the two strikes us as very m♒uch chalk and cheese,” .

“And💛 it also s♐eems ill-advised to throw rocks while you can peer through the mayor’s glass house and find one or two controversies.”

Some Times commenters were even less kind.

“The trains run on time. And it’s a war zone with an ever increasing body count,” wr🧸ote WB from San Diego.

“Yes the trains run on time. but you have the murder capital of the country, and the mayor himself covered up the horrific killing of a young man of color by the Chicago police. Emmanuel should be recalled in d🐓isgrace, in jail, or both. Shameful,” added Mike Green from Boston.