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Council members earlier this month approved a deal to donate up to 400 bicycles found or confiscated by the city police department each year to the Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective.
"It provides people with a low-cost, sustainable form of transportation that's environmentally friendly," said Dave Iltis, chairman of the Mayor's Bicycle Advisory Committee. "It's healthy and it doesn't use gas."
The collective refurbishes the used bicycles and puts them back out in the community. Most of the bikes go to low-income and refugee families.
"Everyone needs to get around," said collective director Jonathan Morrison. "And car ownership is not cheap."