in 2011, he supported outsourcing garbage collection. his plan was to outsource garbage collection in the western part of toronto. this saved the toronto government $12 million a year. he also supported adding bike lanes to the streets of downtown toronto. he opposed creating bike lanes before learning how to ride a bike. this created several bike lanes in downtown toronto. afterwards, minnan-wong helped get bixi, a bike sharing company, to become operated by the toronto parking authority. this was because bixi was in debt.