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So there is one silver lining …

The MTA will “be better” for going through the “experience” of the coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday, citing cleaner trains and efforts to get the homeless out of the subway system.

At a briefing in Manhasset, Cuomo was asked whether he would direct the Long Island Rail Road to increase train service to ensure social distancing once Nassau and Suffolk counties are cleared to return to work.

“Talk about being better for this experience, the MTA is going to be better,” the governor said. “The trains are cleaner today than they have been.”

Cuomo last month announced that the Big Apple’s 24/7 subway system would shutter nightly between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m. to facilitate disinfections of the trains to protect essential workers commuting to the front lines.

That closure had the added effect of forcing the system’s burgeoning homeless population to street level, where the city has been trying to get them into the shelter system with questionable degrees of success.

“To disinfect the trains, we had to get everybody off the trains, including homeless people. Homeless people shouldn’t have been on the trains in the first place,” Cuomo said Tuesday. “Why are you sleeping on a train? We can do better than that.”

Cuomo reiterated that the crucible of the coronavirus — which as of last week had claimed the lives of 116 MTA workers — would improve the agency in the long run.

“I believe the MTA is going to be better for this, and the service is going to be better,” he said. “When we are ready to open, the MTA will be ready to open.”