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
[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.
[Updated: 2/26, 11:37 am – I’ve added audio from the Councilmembers’ testimony (see below).]
Tonight at 7:00, the Vancouver City Council will hear public testimony and vote on an ordinance that would make it illegal for anyone to ride a bicycle in Vancouver without a helmet.
The ordinance began as an 18 and under law, but was amended and revised to include adults at the behest of community members.
The all-ages amendment was unanimously approved by the Council two weeks ago and tonight a final hearing and vote is expected.
A year before a tragic fate befell Austin Miller, the 15 year-old Beaverton student wrote an opinion article on bike safety for his school newspaper titled, “Please Do Not Run Me Over.”
Writing under the pseudonym “Charlie Elsewhere”, the article (full text below) was published in The Savant, the school newspaper at the Art and Communication Magnet Academy in Beaverton, where Miller was a sophomore.
Reading through it, I had mixed emotions. As a father, I found it chilling and immensely sad. As a bike advocate, I found it frustrating. I also had no idea that Austin was so well-versed in bike advocacy.
UPDATE, 3/3: The Columbia River Crossing project staff have issued a memo refuting Cortright’s claims. Download that memo here (300 KB, PDF).
Economist Joe Cortright, who reported last June that Portland’s “green policies” add $2.6 billion into the local economy, has once again set his sights on debunking the Columbia River Crossing (CRC) project.
Cortright’s five-page analysis (download PDF below) raises red flags around several “key issues” surrounding the effort to build a new I-5 bridge over the Columbia River between Portland and Vancouver.
Cortright believes that a new bridge will “induce” more traffic, that it won’t reduce congestion, and that tolling the existing span could cut trips “by as much as half”. He also questions the financing of the project saying that, “$4 billion is a lot of money we don’t have” and that the huge expense will mean the region’s other transportation needs will go unmet “for a decade or more”.
If you want to be part of the International Towards Carfree Cities Conference in Portland this summer (and who doesn’t!), don’t forget to take advantage of the early registration discount.
By registering early for the four-day conference you can save as much as $110 off the price of admission.
The program for the event includes an exciting mix of well-known speakers (including Gil Penalosa), workshops, and panel discussions.
Visit CarFreePortland.org for more information and stay tuned for more coverage.
You can add Jim Middaugh’s name to the list of City Council candidates who are now officially certified to receive public financing.
Middaugh — who I profiled back in January — is running for Council Seat #2 (currently occupied by Erik Sten) and this morning, City Auditor Gary Blackmer gave the official word that Middaugh will receive just over $140,000 in public funding to run his campaign.
Middaugh’s certification comes as no surprise; he and his supporters were able to raise an impressive amount of individual, $5 contributions at a record clip. And now, they’re wasting no time in asking the bike community to help him go from candidate to Commissioner.
It’s official: Press release below…
OFFICE OF CITY AUDITOR CITY OF PORTLAND
February 25, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
JIM MIDDAUGH CERTIFIED
Today, the Auditor certified Jim Middaugh as a Campaign Finance Fund candidate for the May 20, 2008 Primary Election. Mr. Middaugh, candidate for Commissioner No. 2, achieved 1,623 verified qualifying contributions from Portland registered voters during the qualifying period. In addition, Mr. Middaugh has filed for office by declaration. The Auditor has determined that Mr. Middaugh has complied with all applicable provisions of City Code Chapter 2.10.
The Amgen Tour of California — a seven stage, 650-mile race that featured the world’s top teams and riders — wrapped up in Pasadena California on Sunday. Among the finishers were all the big names of elite international racing including the legendary sprinter Mario Cipollini, World Champion Paolo Bettini, and Paris-Roubaix winner Tom Boonen.
Also mixing it up in the Peloton was a name familiar to many Portlanders; our very own hometown hero Doug Ollerenshaw.
The Northwest Portland resident is a member of the controversial and star-studded Rock Racing team and he rode to a very respectable 37th place overall finish.
This April, the work of Oregon’s burgeoning crop of bicycle builders will be on display at the Portland International Airport.
The exhibit will be managed by the Regional Arts and Culture Council (RACC) and will run for six months (from April through September) and will feature a range of bikes in a 40-foot display in the airport’s E Concourse.
Coordinator of the installation, Austin Ramsland (Sweetpea Bicycles), says he already has submissions from 18 different Oregon builders. Once the submissions are complete, a committee of framebuilders and artists formed by the (RACC) will select the bikes to be displayed.