A city councilman wants to plaster the subway walls with mug shots of serial sex fiends so straphangers know whom to avoid.
Peter Vallone Jr. (D-Queens), chair of the Public Safety Committee, told The Post that he will introduce a “Wall of Shame” resolution Monday — and that he hopes it will deter pervs from riding the rails.
“It will put pictures of convicted sex offenders at certain subway locations,” Vallone said.
“I think it would be the subway station closest to where the molesters live and where they committed the crime also.”
The tactic would target gropers, flashers and grinders who repeatedly prey on commuters.
Vallone said former MTA boss Joe Lhota “liked the idea” before he left his post to run for mayor.
Vallone said he has faced previous opposition from the MTA over his “Wall of Shame” idea — going back to NYC Transit President Howard R. Roberts Jr. in 2011 — but this will be the first time he’s introduced it to the City Council.
Serial sex offenders can be barred for life from the subways.
And The Post yesterday revealed that at least nine repeat thieves were permanently banned from the trains. The pickpockets, fare beaters and scrap-metal scroungers agreed to the banishment as part of their parole conditions.
Vallone backs similar bans for perverts — who he says have “the highest recidivism rates of any criminals” — and adds that, at the very least, their faces should be prominently displayed.
“People said: ‘How are these people supposed to show up to work if they can’t go to work? They should have thought of that before they embarked on a life of crime,” he explained.
“My concern is for the safety of subway riders and not an easy commute for criminals. They can go buy a bike.”
He noted the success of DA Dan Donovan’s shoplifter wall of shame at the Staten Island Mall.
“If the Staten Island district attorney believes this is legally permissible, then it is clearly permissible,” Vallone wrote in a recent letter to the MTA.
A request for comment by the MTA was not immediately returned.