During his election campaign, Rob Ford planned to replace some streetcars with buses.

He said the move would ease congestion and it certainly resonated with voters: Ford became mayor-elect on October 25, beating his closest rival by nearly 100,000 votes.

But just two days later, his campaign team admitted there was no plan to tear out streetcar tracks.

His brother Doug Ford said that was a rumour started by the opposition.

But on page two of his six-page transit plan, Rob Ford noted that the cost of purchasing and operating new buses would “be offset by savings from reduced purchase of streetcars, sale of existing streetcars and reduced streetcar system maintenance.”

Ford said his first order of business would be repealing the Vehicle Registration Tax, another election promise.

Read Ford's full transit plan here (pdf).

Ford appeared on The John Oakley Show Wednesday morning to discuss his other initiatives. He announced his candidacy from the same AM640 offices.

Ford said he would cut the mayor's office budget by half a million dollars, and criticized severance packages that are given to outgoing councillors.

"I never supported that, but that's through the provincial government, so I'm going to sit down with [Premier Dalton] McGuinty and review the compensation packages," Ford said.