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Sales and Service Positions (The Bike Gallery)

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Job Title
Sales and Service positions

Company/Organization
The Bike Gallery

Job Description
The Bike Gallery is seeking enthusiastic individuals to join our retail sales forceand our service departments. If you are driven, service oriented and passionate about cycling and the cycling lifestyle, then we want to hear from you!

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Document Production Specialist (Alta Planning)

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Sorry…but this job has been filled as of 4/4/08.

Job Title
Document Production Specialist

Company/Organization
Alta Planning + Design – website

Job Description
Alta Planning and Design is a 35-person consulting firm with a mission to provide green infrastructure and program solutions that help people have active daily lives. We specialize in bicycle, pedestrian, trail, park, and greenway planning, design, and implementation, in addition to outreach and education programs. For more information, see our website at www.altaplanning.com.

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BTA, TriMet announce bus/bike safety initiatives

TriMet GM Fred Hansen

TriMet GM Fred Hansen
is working with the BTA
on bus/bike safety.
(Photos © J. Maus)

In the wake of the tragic death of 15 year-old Austin Miller, who was killed when he and a TriMet bus collided in Beaverton earlier this month, TriMet has issued a press release (full text below) that outlines immediate, near-term, and long-term actions they will take “to make it safer for bicyclists and buses.”

Working in partnership with the Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA), TriMet says in the statement that after the Miller fatality, “it became clear to the leadership at TriMet and the BTA that preventing future crashes like this one would take more than simply admonishing bicyclists and drivers.”

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Bike Commuter Act, “Hummer tax loophole” up for House vote tomorrow

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National Bike Summit 07

Blumenauer, shown here at the National Bike
Summit last year, hopes his Bike Commuter
Act will finally fly with lawmakers.
(Photo © J. Maus)

On the heels of record profits by the big five oil companies, U.S. Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-Portland) will once again try to enact a tax benefit for bike commuters and close the “Hummer tax loophole.”

The bike commuter tax benefit (a.k.a. the Bike Commuter Act and the Conserve By Bike provision) would amend the IRS code to include “bicycles” in the definition of transportation covered by fringe benefits. The Hummer tax loophole would fix what Blumenauer refers to as “a serious mistake” in the tax code that provides an additional tax break for business purchases of luxury SUVs weighing over 6,000 lbs.

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Customer Service/Sales (Waterfront Bicycle Rentals)

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This position has been filled. Sorry.

Job Title
Customer Service/Sales

Company/Organization

Waterfront Bicycle Rentals – Website

Job Description
Expert customer service skills and sales experience, must be friendly and enjoy working with tourist, a strong knowledge and ability to explain how to get around Portland by Bike, and good mechanical skills.

How to Apply
email resume to waterfrontbikes[at]earthlink[dot]net

Injured cyclist looking for driver who hit him

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Still from a KGW-TV video.

[Via KGW]

Sage Silver was hit by a left-turning car at about 10:00 pm while riding home from work along NE Alberta last Friday (2/22).

The driver stopped to make sure Silver was OK. Silver said he was fine, so the driver left the scene. But the next morning, Silver felt abdominal pains and checked himself into the Emergency Room.

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