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Clear the Air Challenge ended yesterday, and participants have until August 6th to log in and enter any unrecorded eligible pollution-reducing trips they made in July. I finished entering my trips yesterday, and they came to a grand total of 117. As others log in and add their unreported trips, I'm quickly getting shoved out of the top 100. Though this is a good sign that so many people worked so hard at this, I wanted to post proof of my total for posterity....
Are you impressed, posterity? Walking and biking and mass transit are definitely less fun in the hottest part of the summer and the coldest part of the winter, but those are the two times we in the Salt Lake Valley most need to cut back on car use. I could have done more, but doing this much felt good, and the competitive element definitely made me try harder.
It was mostly trip chaining, public transit, and walking. One or two eliminated trips and carpool rides.
