Alternate Transportation Challenge a Success

482-people and 10,773-kilometres logged.
Those are the results from Dryden’s first Alternative Transportation Challenge.
Residents were asked to trade in their vehicle for a bike for a week.
Organizer Andi Kidd hopes to expand the program next year.
20-workplaces and families participated in the initiative including CKDR.
The Keewatin-Patricia District School Board had the most participants at 148.
Kidd outlines some of the highlights;
Del Schmucker of the School Board biked 42-kilometres a day.
City Manager Arie Hoogenboom rode roughly 100-kilometres during the week.
Brenda Schmucker rode her bike from 2-Mile Corner to the Dryden Regional Health Centre and back each day during the initiative.