Mayoral candidate Judy Wasylycia-Leis announced her green plan at a press conference on Friday morning.
Wasylycia-Leis outlined six different green issues that she would focus on as mayor.
If elected, Wasylycia-Leis promised that city hall will install bike racks to try to encourage people to ditch their cars. She plans to split the cost for the initiative with businesses.
Wasylycia-Leis said she is also planning to start a local food policy council, with a goal of increasing options for local producers and consumers. She also promised to establish a civic environment committee that would update the city's environmental action documents.
Community-driven green initiatives would be able to secure funding through a micro-grants program Wasylycia-Leis would establish, she said.
She also pledged to invest about $300,000 to preserve Winnipeg's elm trees and urban forest.
Wasylycia-Leis also promised that the first phase of construction of the bus rapid transit plan will be finished by the end of her first term, if she is elected.
Currently, the first phase is already under construction and according to Katz, it is already on track to be finished before the end of 2011.
"Under the former premier [Gary] Doer and yours truly, the first stage of [Bus Rapid Transit] will be completed in November of 2011," he said. "It's on track and that's just a fact."
Wasylycia-Leis said she will also begin the second phase of bus rapid transit.
Mayor Sam Katz has said he wants to finish the project with light rail. However, he has not secured funding.
- with a report from CTV's Nancy Carlson
