MTA on fiasco: God did it

Now it’s God’s fault.

Transit officials have flip-flopped on whom to blame for stranding more than two dozen straphangers in a subway car during last winter’s blizzard. First, the agency acknowledged it “forgot about the train,” but now, it’s blaming it all on an “Act of God.”

In a response to a lawsuit filed by several of the passengers, an MTA lawyer yesterday denied claims of “false imprisonment” and negligence — as well as statements by NYC Transit President Thomas Prendergast, who admitted in the fall that his agency “forgot about the train” and called the incident “inexcusable.”

“It is shocking the lengths the MTA is going through to avoid accountability in this matter,” said the riders’ lawyer, Aymen Aboushi, who filed the suit in December, a year after the Christmas 2010 blizzard.

The 24 stranded passengers were stuck on an A train near the Aqueduct station on Dec 26, 2010, for almost nine hours without any food, water, heat or bathroom facilities.

Some of the passengers were hospitalized after the ordeal.

“NYCTA employees were confronted with an emergency situation by virtue of an Act of God,’’ according to the new filing in Queens Supreme Court.