NYC subway had worst summer for service in years -- but MTA boss insists it was 'one of the best'

“Good” grief.

Massive subway meltdowns made this summer the most hellish for straphangers since 2018, data shows — but MTA honcho Janno Lieber still insisted Wednesday that the transit agency had a “good summer.”

Lieber pushed back on a Gothamist report showing this June and July had the most delay-causing major incidents in eight years, claiming a rebound in August salvaged the season.

“But if you count August, ladies and gentlemen, this has been one of the best summers in MTA history,” he proudly declared. 4

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But even with Lieber’s supposedly game-saving August, data provided by MTA officials themselves shows the three summer months were still the worst since 2018 — when the city was just a year past the notorious “ summer of hell .”

Data from this June, July and August