Month: January 2007

New feature: Job Listings

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Since so many of wonderful, smart, and eminently-employable folks visit this site every day, I frequently get contacted by HR people wanting to post job announcements.

They rarely warrant their own post, and I’ve never had a good place to put them…until now.

Behold, the new BikePortland Job Listings.

So here’s the deal. If your company or non-profit wants major exposure (60,000 visits so far this month) for key positions, you can have them listed on BikePortland.org. These are paid listings and jobs will run for 30 days.

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Portland’s bike boulevard bonanza

[All signs point to
more bike boulevards]

In case anyone gets the wrong impression after my post about Berkeley’s bicycle boulevard efforts, I thought an update on Portland’s progress was in order. Here are a few things I’ve come across just in the past week or so.

SE Foster Bypass Bicycle Boulevard
With strong leadership from Commissioner Sam Adams, City Council recently decided to allocate one-time funds to create a new bicycle boulevard to bypass SE Foster Road. Adams’ office listed a safe Foster Blvd. bypass as one of their top priorities. Back in November they said:

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Stolen Bridgestone Unknown

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Classic 1993 Bridgestone MB, Purple, modified for city cruising with single speed, straight handlebars, fenders (silver-colored plastic), and a rear rack.

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Bikes in the community: My talk with John Canda

[John Canda, head of the Mayor’s
Office on Youth Crime Prevention]

On Wednesday I met with John Canda to hear his perspectives on how bikes might play a larger role in community policing.

John is the Mayor’s youth crime prevention czar. Prior to that, he led the Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods, one of six coalitions that oversees 12 neighborhoods.

We met in the Humboldt neighborhood, just blocks from where John was born and raised and where his parents still have a home.

First, let me explain something. Recent attacks are what sparked my action on this issue, but I do not believe there is a rampant crime problem nor a major trend of random attacks on cyclists in the N Vancouver/Williams area. My interest is in the bigger picture.

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Stolen Bridgestone 300

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Has “ridestoned” on one side of top tube, dura-ace rear hub, ultegra front hub, blackburn rear rake, sks fenders, salsa handbars, red sidewall tires, wtb saddle

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What Portland bike boulevards dream about

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[Berkeley’s Bike Boulevards, by Clarence Eckerson (for StreetsBlog)]
Length: 8 min. 12 sec.

Clarence Eckerson’s latest StreetFilms piece focuses on Berkeley California’s bicycle boulevard network. It’s a great film and it shows that Berkeley is way ahead of Portland in creating slow, traffic-calmed streets that are safe and appealing for people (not just cars).

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Got the gravel-in-the-bike-lane blues?

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Several readers have written in complaining about gravel still left in many bike lanes throughout the city. It was initially spread to help with the ice and slick roads from our recent storm.

One reader says,

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