MTA brass blew off the blizzard.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority decided against putting an urgent-level emergency plan into effect in anticipation of the storm — opting instead for its lowest-level strategy, which was woefully inadequate, a source told The Post.
The source said the MTA implemented its “Plan 1” over the weekend rather than “Plan 4” — the highest emergency alert.
Had the MTA treated the storm with its most urgent alert, it would have dispatched crews for “rocking the trains” — sending subway cars back and forth across the tracks specifically to clear them of ice and snow, the source said.
The top alert also would have made available a diesel train at every depot to help tow in extra cars as needed. Instead, there was just one diesel train available in all of Brooklyn during the devastating storm — the borough hardest hit in terms of subway service, according to the source.
“People on the ground wanted a Plan 4 to go into effect, but top MTA management decided not to do that,” the source said.
The blind eye to the blinding storm resulted in lost power on frozen tracks and a severe lack of equipment.
An MTA spokesman insisted the agency “was tracking this storm for almost a week, and sprung into action as soon as forecasts began calling for blizzard conditions on Saturday. “We implemented a plan that provided service and protected our equipment,” he said.