With four days to go until voters will choose the city’s next mayor, Joe Pantalone has released a “complete” transit plan for Toronto.

“I don’t believe it’s late,” he said. “I think this is very appropriate as people are still making up their minds.”

For months, Joe Pantalone has been trailing a distant third in the polls.

The most recent, a Leger Marketing poll commissioned by the Toronto Sun, puts the deputy mayor at 10 per cent, well behind Rob Ford, who has 30 per cent, and George Smitherman, who earned 31 per cent of the decided vote.

The telephone poll has a margin of error of 4 per cent.

Standing alongside the controversial Jarvis St. bike lane Thursday morning, Pantalone promised to complete 1,000 kilometres of cycles routes by 2012, build European-style separated bike lanes along University Ave. and Richmond St., as well as add a second general manager to the TTC.

“The TTC has lost its way,” said Pantalone.

The system’s attention has been split between two goals: maintain its current service and building transit city, he said. Pantalone said he would appoint a manager for each priority.

Asked to explain key differences between his plan and the one the city is currently plugging away at, Pantalone said: “I will implement it... I’m an implementer.”

Pantalone released a transit plan earlier in the campaign that was essentially a commitment to complete the city’s current strategy: Transit City.

As mayor, Pantalone would:

• Convert some street parking to create 50 “bicycle parking corrals,” each providing space for about 20 bikes, and create bike parking in “Green P” lots. “The more space you create for bikes, the more space you create for everyone,” says the plan, which doesn’t reveal how many car spots would disappear, or where.

• Install physically separated bike lanes “for the safety and convenience of both cyclists and motorists,” starting with University Ave. and Richmond St. and expanding to other “appropriate avenues” as determined in consultations with community members and city staff. A controversial pilot project to put two separated lanes on University Ave. in the summer was scuttled when a Pantalone ally mis-voted.

• Complete the 2001 bike plan’s promised 1,000-kilometre network of bikeways by 2012 — an ambitious goal that would involve considerable acceleration of lane and off-road path installation.

• Expand the BIXI bike-sharing network, set to hit Toronto streets next spring, beyond its original boundaries of south of Bloor St. and between Spadina Ave. and Jarvis St.

• Create a “public education campaign for all road users to raise public awareness about our individual responsibility for road sharing.”

• Within the TTC, create a special unit responsible for construction projects, with one manager responsible for “meeting today’s demands” and another for “planning and meeting future needs.”

• Open up “food vending options” in subway stations. (There is no detail about how.)

With files from David Rider