Miracle Of Life . . . Free Rides For Life . . . Free Rides!

Don’t even think about getting creative with that C-section because it won’t work:

There’s no such thing as a free ride – even if you’re born on a bus or subway.

That’s the word from New York City Transit.

But Lydia Irvin is still convinced the old urban legend is true, and she hopes her granddaughter’s birth certificate is as good as a lifetime free MetroCard.

The baby girl, also named Lydia Irvin, was born on a B15 bus last Monday evening after doctors at Kings County Hospital sent her mom, Madeline Rivera, home, insisting that she was not going into labor.

Rivera and Irvin left the hospital and hopped on the B12 bus, then transferred to the B15 at Eastern Parkway.

A few minutes later, Rivera leaned over to Irvin and whispered, “I think the baby is coming now.”

Irvin suggested they get off the bus immediately, but Rivera said, “We’re almost home.”

But the baby wasn’t going to wait, and the bus driver pulled over in front of a Laundromat on Vermont Avenue. He and Irvin laid Rivera on the floor at the foot of the driver’s seat.

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“She’s an MTA baby,” Irvin said. “On her birth certificate, it doesn’t say she was born at the hospital, it says on the B15 bus.

“The bus driver and several MTA employees all told me that she would get free rides for life.”

MTA officials said if that ever was the policy, baby Lydia missed the bus by some 60 years.

“I don’t know if we’ve ever done that,” a spokeswoman said. “Maybe in the 1940s, but that’s before my time.”

Nevertheless, Lydia’s grandma was optimistic.

“Too many people have told me they give at least a year’s worth of free rides,” she said. “But if they don’t, that’s OK, too — this was a miracle, and that’s all that matters.”