Councillors for Transcona, North Kildonan, and Elmwood East Kildonan held a special committee meeting to discuss concerns surrounding the city's cycling and pedestrian strategy.

Russ Wyatt says the city is pushing the 20-year $334-million strategy too quickly and he wants council to think twice about making a decision right before summer break.

Wyatt and Councillors Jason Schreyer and Jeff Browaty form the East-Kildonan-Transcona Community Committee.

On Tuesday, they made a motion to make changes to the Pedestrian and Cycling Strategy.

Those changes include a drop in investments from $344-million to $55-million.

"We have to ensure that what we heard last fall in the election, namely the existing infrastructure, is first and foremost," said Wyatt.

Schreyer led the charge on a change to remove all references to sidewalk snow clearing, so residents wouldn’t be responsible for it themselves.

"The city can most safely and most efficiently maintain our sidewalks and that's the best way for Winnipeg," said Schreyer.

Schreyer said as a lifelong Winnipegger, he can’t support the recommendation of people clearing snow off their own sidewalks.

Councillor Janice Lukes said at this point that item is just one of 110 recommendations in the strategy, and argued it would be something open to public input.

The amendments also call to reduce the number of protected bike lanes by half.

"Where, where are they going to do this. It’s been explained multiple times, this is sort of a framework document, it's not perfect, there will be consultation, there will be changes,” said Mark Cohoe from Bike Winnipeg.

Earlier this year, Mayor Bowman ordered the city's Office of Public Engagement to review consultations done for the pedestrian cycle strategy.

The Office of Public Engagement concluded consultations were done correctly.

Any changes to the strategy would have to go through the Public Works Department, where meetings are wrapped up for the summer.

Now the councillors will bring the amendments to City Council’s next meeting on July 15, 2015, where it’s set to vote on the 20-year strategy.