TikToker who cuffed herself to NYC subway pole to avoid shoves boycotts transit system after latest fatal push

A TikToker who went viral for chaining herself to a subway pole in an anti-shove hack is flipping out over the latest random transit killing — and boycotting the system altogether.

Bronx resident Wanda Vela said the subway is “too crazy” after the city’s fourth subway murder this year.

“When is it going to stop?” Vela, 53, said on Tiktok. “How many people got to die in the subway? Jesus.”

And now Vela won’t even ride the subway, the lifelong New Yorker exclusively told The Post.

“You’re always on edge, going down those steps, and that’s it – the paranoia starts. You don’t know who’s who,” Vela said.

The home health care aide said she already took a pay cut about a year ago when she quit her Manhattan job and took one in the Bronx instead, all to avoid riding the train.

“I came in [to Manhattan] five days. I took a little salary cut – now it’s four days. I’m sorry, I had to … It’s worth it. Even with the money difference, I couldn’t do it,” Vela said, adding that she tries to pick up extra shifts on weekends to make up for the financial shortfall.

After learning about Jason Volz, 54, who was tragically pushed to his death off the 4 train subway platform at the 125th Street station in East Harlem on Monday, Vela is quitting the underground public transit system for good.

“It’s worse now. I do not go into the city, I get too much anxiety,” Vela said. “I couldn’t breathe. I get paranoid. I couldn’t do it anymore.”

Even enjoying free time in Manhattan – like shopping and enjoying dinners at the Hard Rock Cafe in Times Square – is largely off the table since she stopped riding.

“I really have this anxiety that I can’t breathe. The last time I was on the train, I got out at a random stop to breathe,” she said.

Vela’s doctor prescribed anti-anxiety meds, but she rebuffed the advice. “I didn’t want to take pills – it’s not a way to live life.”

She blamed a variety of factors including homelessness that contribute to today’s climate of fear.

“Eric Adams isn’t doing anything about it. He said he was going to help the homeless and take them out of the train,” she said, but she’s still waiting to see that happen.

And Vela said the promise of 800 more cops patrolling the subway system doesn’t inspire confidence either. Only the addition of proper barriers would make a difference, the mother of two said — bashing new yellow safety rails being tested in the system as not stoping “anyone from doing something bad.

“The city has the money to do something to actually make a difference – but they’re wasting money on yellow bars. I think it’s going to get worse,” Vela said.

Vela’s November 2021 viral TikTok video shows her strapping herself into a bike lock on subway platforms to protect against a possible shove attack. “It’s bad out here,” she said in the clip. “People want to push people on the train – and it ain’t going to happen to me”

The post netted nearly 400,000 likes and 11,000 comments three years ago.

Vela received emails from New Yorkers who said they wanted to copy her bike lock hack, but she’s not convinced it helps mentally.

“A couple of people told me they were doing it,” she said, noting that her sister and niece, a D train rider, dutifully deployed that bike lock at stations. “But she was just paranoid and just moved to Florida.

“It’s so sad about this man,” she added. “This shouldn’t have happened.”