An Afghanistan-and-Iraq level police surge is needed to make riders feel safe as they return to New York’s subways, the MTA official who oversees city subways and buses said Tuesday.

“I would like to see a uniformed presence in every station and, frankly, on every platform,” interim NYC Transit president Sarah Feinberg said during a forum with the Citizens Budget Commission. “We’re at a critical moment where people have to come back into the system and they have to feel like they’re safe.”