Year: 2022
Get around Oregon without a car with this handy transit guide
Weekend Event Guide: Petal Pedal, End AIDS Ride, bike polo, and more
Jobs of the Week: Community Cycling Center, Cynergy E-Bikes, King Cycle Group
Need a new job? Want a better job?
We’ve got three great job opportunities that just went up this week.
Learn more about each one via the links below…
– Senior Bike Mechanic – Cynergy E-Bikes
– HR Manager – King Cycle Group
– Mechanic – Community Cycling Center
OHSU rides toward low-car future in South Waterfront
Remembering Aaron Tarfman
Team Portland preps for AIDS/LifeCycle with over $145,000 raised so far
A team of over 40 Portlanders is doing their part to raise money for people living with HIV/AIDS.
Team Portland will join 3,000 other riders when they take part in the AIDS/LifeCycle event, a seven-day, 545-mile ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles to help support the work of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and the Los Angeles LGBT Center.
So far the team has raised over $145,000 and they are making final preparations to embark on their ride June 5th.
I recently bumped into Team Portland member Stephen La Marca, who’s personally raised over $3,100.
On his fundraising site Stephen says he rides to support people who’ve lost loved ones to HIV/AIDS. “We are in an ongoing battle against a horrible virus and continuously fighting against discrimination based on sexual orientation, race, gender, and HIV status. If we continue to work together we can make a change, and continue to make the world a better place for those we love,” he says.
City blames rising costs, supply chain issues for cuts to ‘Cully Connector’ project
How much change in lower southeast? City planners want to know
ODOT has added e-bike charging outlets to Oregon’s portion of ‘West Coast Electric Highway’
Former PBOT staffer setting up ‘Committee on Transportation Equity’ for Biden Administration
A new advisory committee to the U.S. Department of Transportation will have fingerprints of a former Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) staffer all over it.
Irene Marion worked on equity and inclusion programs at PBOT for about five years before taking a job with the Biden Administration in January 2021. Now, as director of the USDOT’s office of civil rights, Marion has been tapped to re-establish the Advisory Committee on Transportation Equity.
The committee was first convened in 2016 by former President Barack Obama and was dissolved under President Donald Trump.
The charge of the committee is to, “provide advice and recommendations to the Secretary of Transportation on comprehensive, interdisciplinary issues related to transportation equity from a variety of stakeholders involved in transportation planning, design, research, policy, and advocacy in pursuit of the Department’s equity goals.”