Darius McCollum updates

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Brooklyn prosecutors appear to be growing irked at the city’s favorite transit fanatic’s insistence that he head to trial.

Despite thrice offering transport-obsessed Darius McCollum a deal of 3.5 to 7 years behind bars for swiping a Greyhound bus in November 2015, Assistant District Attorney Christopher Myco retracted the offer Thursday — instead pitching a term of five to 10 years in prison.

The new offer came with the condition that the transit enthusiast, who has Asperger’s Syndrome, plead guilty to charges of second-degree grand larceny.

McCollum and his lawyer, Sally Butler, immediately shot down the offer, as they have in the past.

The 50-year-old defendant is slotted to head to trial in September.

Brooklyn prosecutors offered him the opportunity to plead guilty for reasons of insanity. If he agrees, a panel of doctors will determine his fitness and place him in a mental institution.

Prosecutors have made several plea offers to McCollum, all involving prison time, since his November 2015 arrest for jumping behind the wheel of the empty bus and taking it out for a spin — for 36 hours.

But McCollum has rejected the offers, ranging from 31/2 to 10 years, which would have shipped him to an upstate prison.

The transit thief’s longtime attorney, Sally Butler, has lobbied for McCollum to receive court-ordered mental health treatment, instead of prison, because he’s been diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome.

McCollum, 51, is a two-time felon whose obsession with buses and trains has resulted in a lengthy criminal record for stealing the vehicles.

Yet his particular condition didn’t qualify him for the mental health treatment.

If McCollum accepts the offer the prosecutor made Tuesday, the judge will conduct a hearing in which a panel of doctors will determine McCollum’s mental fitness.

The panel will determine if he’s either mentally ill and dangerous, mentally ill and not dangerous or not mentally ill,” Assistant District Attorney Christopher Myco explained to the judge.

Butler requested an adjournment in order for McCollum to review the offer.

“This is not a traditional plea,” the attorney said.

If McCollum takes his chances with a jury and is convicted, he faces five to 15 years in prison for the top count of grand larceny.

“Doctors concluded the defendant did lack the substantial capacity to know or appreciate the consequences of his actions by reason of insanity or autism spectrum disorder,” Myco read in court from a portion of the report the prosecution’s expert prepared.

“This doesn’t happen,” Butler said outside of court. “That’s what’s so bizarre about it — usually I’m the one begging the court to say somebody has a mental defect or is not responsible.”

In addition to grand larceny, McCollum faces charges of criminal impersonation, operating a motor vehicle without a license, criminal possession of stolen property and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle.

He will have to say on Oct. 18 whether he will accept the offer or go to trial on Dec. 4.

Genius: Aretha director-producer Anthony Hemingway is in talks to helm Train Man, a legal drama based on the true story of Darius McCollum, a man with Asperger syndrome whose fascination with subways and trains led to him posing as various New York City Metro officials in order to operate subway trains.

FilmNation and Gotham Group are producing the pic.

Hemingway is widely known in the TV space, having executive produced and directed episodes for Underground, Unsolved, The Purge series and the upcoming Nat Geo miniseries Genius: Aretha.