MTA board guy Mitchell Pally, the Long Islander who railed against drinking on the train, only to find none of his fellow board members felt the same way, was at it again in yesterday’s Times. In an Op-Ed called “Dry Run,” Pally rails against the “terrible practice” of the MTA selling alcohol on train platforms and the occasional bar car. “This willingness to encourage drinking on trains is tantamount to giving people alcohol while they are driving.”

Pally then makes the issue one of public policy. In short, he says, those drinking on trains make for a miserable ride for everyone else. “One would not drink in someone else’s house without being invited to do so and without taking into account the wishes of everyone else,” he says. (Uh, didn’t Pally go to, like, college?)

“We similarly should take into account the wishes of others who are on the train,” he continues. “After all, if passengers wanted to be around drinkers, they would go to a bar.”

And if they wanted to be around book-readers, they’d go to Barnes & Noble. And if they wanted to be around a Muslim guy saying his prayers, they’d go to a darn mosque.

As Trainjotting readers know, I’ve got a pretty fair nose for bad train behavior. And as I enter my eighth month of daily riding, I can honestly say that of all the bad behavior I’ve witnessed, I don’t know that any of it has been related to people drinking.

People can engage in bad behavior without the booze, thank you very much.