Naturally, the scheme to light up the city’s bridges turns out to be yet another murky Cuomo mess.

With subway lines stalling on a daily basis, Mayor Bill de Blasio slammed Gov. Andrew Cuomo for having the MTA spend $212 million on the light show. Team Cuomo then announced that the New York Power Authority would pick up the bill instead, which was news to the NYPA folks.

Oh, and a Cuomo flack tried to further muddy the waters by claiming the city is “solely responsible for funding [the subway’s] capital plan,” which isn’t remotely close to traditional practice of recent times.

The bridges do look cool, lit up in synchronization, in the artists’-conception pictures the governor loves to include in his slideshows. And Andrew Cuomo loves his glitz, and his headlines.

Just as he hates saying exactly where the money’s coming from, whether it’s the $1 billion for the new LIRR track, the $3 billion for Moynihan Station or $5.6 billion for LIRR station renovations.

And those are just projects for the MTA. The Mario Cuomo Bridge is nearly finished, and the source of nearly $2 billion of its funding is still a mystery.

Most of the expense will have to be bonded out by one authority or another — but they’ll still have to pay off those bonds.

“State authorities can handle their debt until they can’t,” warns the Manhattan Institute’s Nicole Gelinas. Cuomo’s agenda for the MTA, she notes, has the agency looking at a $400 million deficit by 2020.

In all this, the gov is a creature of Albany, with (to quote the Empire Center’s E.J. McMahon) its “age-old willingness to kick the can down the road.”

But for the subways, this is down the road: The regular breakdowns and delays are the result of maintenance deferred, in part to get the Second Avenue line running in time for Cuomo’s photo-op on New Year’s Day.

And that crisis has de Blasio and every other Cuomo rival suddenly screaming about the gov’s various financial games.

(Of course, pre-crisis they couldn’t be bothered to thunder about bills that will, after all, come due long after they, too, have left office.)

Sorry, Governor: The hits will keep on coming until the subway trains are back running on time — and no amount of razzle-dazzle will work to change the subject.

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