About 9,000 daily riders in the Rockaways will be without the A train for about four months, starting in mid-January.

“Only having one line, I was like great, super easy, easy to get in and out,” Rockaway resident Tiffany Matyja said.

Moving to the Rockaways from Mississippi was a big jump for Matyja. So, to only have the “A” train to navigate to and from work was pretty simple. But her travels will now be complicated by service disruptions to the line for 17 weeks.

“I really don’t know how I’m going to get out and be able to do things after work, on the weekends, without having to go way out of my way to get into the city,” Matyja said.

The MTA said crews need to repair infrastructure damaged during Hurricane Sandy. Back in 2012, emergency repairs restored service seven months after the storm.

Twelve years later, transit officials said the bridge and viaduct that carry trains across Broad Channel need major upgrades to protect the line from future storms.

“We got to do this work because, just tonight, the bridge actually wouldn’t close,” MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber said.

As Lieber explained the need for the upgrades on NY1’s “Inside City Hall” Thursday night, a town hall was being held in the Rockaways to explain the disruptions to residents.

To bridge the lack of transit access for customers, the MTA will offer free shuttle buses and discounts on fares at the Long Island Rail Road’s Far Rockaway Station. A shuttle train service will also run throughout the Rockway peninsula, just not outside of it.

But Matyja said even with discounted and free services, the thing she can’t make up is time.

“It definitely already takes about an 1 hour 20 minutes to get into the city, so now I’m just dreading doing things,” Matyja said.

The Long Island Rail Road will offer a steep discount from $7 to $2.75, but people will have to purchase their round trip fare at the Far Rockaway Station in order to get it.