Only one thing riles Staten Islanders more than hiking the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge toll to an eye-popping $19: interfering with their ability to bitch about it.

“It burns me that the MTA is doing this without us,” said Scott Maurer. “They’re going to raise the tolls that fall on me and I can’t even go and speak my voice.”

The toll on the span, the forgotten borough’s only direct connection to the rest of the city, could zoom 12 percent higher than its already eye-popping $17 in March as part of an across-the-board rate hike.

But the only public hearing in the borough starts when few commuters can actually get there: 5:30 pm on Monday at the College of Staten Island.

“They picked the time to suppress participation,” charged Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis (R-SI/Bklyn). “If you work in midtown, you’re lucky if you get on an express bus by 5:30. By the time my constituents reach Staten Island, it’s 7:00.”

Even worse, the meeting falls on the second night of Hanukkah.

“That just adds insult to injury,” Malliotakis said.

“They would never hold a hearing like this anytime between Christmas Eve and January 1,” said Maurer, who heads the Council of Jewish Organizations of Staten Island.

And Brooklynites at the other end of the bridge who want to attend a hearing will have one in their borough on Dec. 10, the final night of the Festival of Lights.

“Almost 5,000 Staten Island children travel to yeshivas in Brooklyn every day,” he said. “This is a hardship and an expense for our families.”

The other three boroughs have MTA hearings on toll and fare hikes outside of the Jewish holiday week.

MTA representatives will stay at the Staten Island hearing until every registered speaker has said their piece, agency spokesman Shams Tarek promised.

“Speakers can register until 8:30 p.m., allowing plenty of time for commuters,” Tarek said. Customers can also vent on video at MTA-sponsored taping sessions near both terminals of the Staten Island Ferry.

The Verrazzano’s current levy is already the priciest in the nation. Only the 23-mile Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel in Virginia, a chain of six crossings that costs $15 each way, comes close.

The Island toll is collected only as vehicles enter Staten Island, and some frequent E-ZPass users who are Island residents will get discounts down to $7 under the new tolling plan.

With few transit options and the MTA’s express bus and MetroCard fares also set to rise, Staten Islanders — who grapple with some of the nation’s longest commutes — are boiling mad.

“We don’t have the luxury of the other boroughs’ mass transit options,” said Dan Cavanaugh, a firefighter who lives in Staten Island and works in the Bronx. “So we suck it up and drive.”

Cavanaugh’s fastest round-trip route to work will cost $31.88 a day once the toll increases hit.