CTA hopes this kind of rush hour — subway surfing — doesn't take root here as it has in New York

A Chicago man who says he has “subway surfed” numerous times since he was a teenager — surreptitiously climbing atop moving L trains and becoming an open-air commuter, which he often chronicled on video and posted on social media — says there’s nothing else like it.

“The feeling that you get is one of the most insane feelings on earth because you’re putting yourself in a spot that’s not really natural,” according to the man, who asked not to be publicly identified.

“It’s the most freeing thing ever,” he said, comparing it to “an addiction.”

Which the CTA is hoping doesn’t spread, as occurred on the New York City transit system, where subway surfing has reached epidemic — and dangerous — proportions.

Nine people partaking in the high-stakes thrill-seeking in that city’s subways since la