It won't be long before we start to see more bicycle racks available in Portage.

That's from Southern Health-Sante Sud Healthy Living Facilitator Maureen Owens, who explains the City of Portage is going to install them in the near future.

"So we have 23 racks, and we've partnered with the City of Portage la Prairie, and they are going to install them for us," she says, "So we have, I think, about 14 sites that we've earmarked for different racks to go. So that will make it easier for people to ride their bikes, to do errands, to go visit people, when they know they have a secure place to lock up their bike."

Owens Owens tells us 23 new racks are already here.

"They're at the Operations Department right now," she says, "And so the City and myself actually went on a ride along just the other week, and so we'll slowly start putting them out into the community."