PlaNYC includes a number of transportation intiatives: expanding transportation to more neighborhoods, more bus systems, increasing access to subways and buses, among others.  But due to a budget deficit of about $750 million, the MTA is instead making the following cuts in service, effective June 27, 2010:

- removal of the W line, which goes from Broadway at Whitehall Street in Manhattan, to Astoria, Queens. The Q will extend to Astoria.

- no more V service, which extends from Second Avenue, Manhattan, to Forest Hills in Queens. The M will replace it between Broadway-Lafayette and Forest Hills.

- the G train, which runs from Church Avenue in Brooklyn through 71st Ave in Forest Hills, Queens, will stop at at Court Square in Queens

Express bus routes will be discontinued between Manhattan and Queens, Grand Central and Lower Manhattan, Staten Island and Manhattan, and more.  Hundreds of local bus routes are being cut or restructured as well.  Waiting times on numerous subway lines will increase midday and on weekends.

For a full listing of changes, click here.

In the 2010 PlaNYC Progress Report, the Bloomberg administration blamed the recession, saying “maintaining and improving the current transit network as well as expanding the system to accommodate future demand – have been subject to dynamics largely out of City control.”