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Job Title
Bike Commute Challenge Program Coordinator
Company/Organization
Bicycle Transportation Alliance
Job Description
Organization: Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA)
Job Title: BTA’s Bike Commute Challenge Program Coordinator
Reporting To: Programs Director
Rate of Pay: $12.50/hour
Status: Full-time, temporary: July 9th- October 19th
Location: Portland, OR
Love getting around by bike? Interested in sharing what you know with adults in a large range of professional settings throughout the Portland Metro area? Want to play a major role in generating workplace rivalries, executing fun events, and building excitement for biking to work through the 12,000-person-strong BTA’s Bike Commute Challenge? We want to you to join our team!
Vision Statement
Bicycling transforms communities by reinventing transportation and offering solutions that help solve the universal challenges to health, livability and the environment.
Executive Summary
The Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA) is a non-profit membership organization with a mission to create healthy, sustainable communities by making bicycling safe, convenient, and accessible in Oregon and SW Washington.
We are hiring one temporary, full-time Program Coordinator who will support the BTA’s Bike Commute Challenge program from July 16th through October 19th. The Bike Commute Challenge is a month-long bike-to-work competition. In 2011, more than 12,000 people at more than 1,400 workplaces in Oregon and SW Washington participated.
Responsibilities:
The Program Coordinator will work as part of team to:
Teach Bike Commuting Workshops at workplaces, schools, and other locations throughout the Metro area.
Help employers encourage bike commuting at their workplaces.
Promote the BTA’s Bike Commute Challenge at community events and through communication with media and program partners.
Track and evaluate program reach and success including collecting and entering contacts and other data in BTA information systems.
Monitor and respond to web help requests that come in through the BTA’s Bike Commute Challenge Website
Write content for the Bike Commute Challenge website, blog, Facebook page, and participant emails.
Assist in planning and executing events including the Challenge kick-off, Walk+Bike to School Day, and the BTA’s Bike Commute Challenge Awards Party.
Requisite Experience
– Personal experience with and passion for bike commuting.
– Strong public speaking and teaching skills.
– Professionalism, comfort, and ease in a range of professional environments.
– Data entry and web facility.
– Strong written communication skills.
The ideal candidate will also possess:
– Basic bike mechanic skills.
– Event planning experience.
– Strong organizational skills.
– Experience presenting in a language additional to English and/or experience working in different cultural settings.
How to Apply
Please send your cover letter, resume as well as a completed BTA application form in PDF format via email to stephanie@btaoregon.org. No calls, please.
The BTA does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital or familial status, physical or mental disability or legal source of income.
Chrome, a well-known bag and urban bicycling/lifestyle apparel brand, opened a new retail store in downtown Portland yesterday. Staffers from the company’s San Francisco headquarters spent three weeks completely renovating a 1,300 square foot space at 425 SW 10th Avenue (around the corner from the Ace Hotel and up the street from Powell’s). Portland is just the fourth city where Chrome has opened a store, and we’re by far the smallest. Their other stores are in San Francisco (their headquarters), New York City, and Chicago.
Chrome was founded 17 years ago in Boulder, Colorado and moved to San Francisco a few years later. Since then, due in large part to their iconic messenger bags, they’ve extended their product line and now offer apparel, backpacks, and footwear. While their gear is not bike-specific, the brand lives and breathes urban biking and everything is made with the assumption that the customer will move around the city on a bike.
Brand: Schwinn
Model: Trailway Hybrid (Women’s)
Color:Blue/silver
Size:28
Stolen in Portland, OR 97206
Stolen:2012-05-07
Stolen From: 5026 SE 75th Avenue
Neighborhood: Foster Powell
Owner: Kirsteen Scott
OwnerEmail: kirsteens@hotmail.com
Description: Schwinn water bottle & holder, bike pump, front & rear lights. Mint condition.
Police record with: PPD
Police reference#: 12-41090
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike
Year: 2011
Brand: TREK
Model: 7.3 FX WSD
Color:BLU
Size:19
Serial: WTU117C1515F
Stolen in Portland, OR 97218
Stolen:2012-05-30
Stolen From: MY GARAGE!
Neighborhood: NE – Cully
Owner: Melanie Gurley
OwnerEmail: melindamelania@yahoo.com
Description: Last seen with: black bike rack on back, silver water bottle holder on body, black wrist-watch on handle bars, little dinger bell on handle-bars, 2 rear lights, and 1 front light mount
Police record with: Portland PD
Police reference#: 12.44324
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike
[Story and photos by Russ Roca of The Path Less Pedaled]
Eastern Oregon is known for its dry climate; but there’s something taking root along its gorgeous backroads that could help grow the economy of its many small communities: bicycle tourism.
A makeshift meeting room in the Outpost Pub and Grill in John Day (pop. 1,744) is probably the last place you’d expect talk about the need of a bicycle friendly business program, community bike share or bike racks. However, this is the sort of quiet magic that a small, road-weary crew comprised of representatives from Travel Oregon and the Oregon State Parks and Recreation Department have been performing through many rural Oregon communities over the past year.
The Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) and the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) held one of their regularly scheduled “crosswalk enforcement actions” yesterday. This excellent program, run by the PBOT traffic safety team and dedicated staffer Sharon White (who often puts herself at risk on our most dangerous roads as a decoy during the missions), has resulted in nearly 1,000 citations since it began five years ago.
The set-up is your typical sting situation, except that it’s not exactly a sting. The reason we call these “enforcement actions” is because both the PPB and PBOT give plenty of prior warning that the missions are happening. They notify the public about them via the local media and they even set up signs at the locations announcing that an enforcement is ahead. The goal, says the City, is not to fill the City’s coffers busting scofflaws, but rather to increase awareness among road users of traffic safety and the laws that govern it.
Year: 70s
Brand: schwinn
Model: le tour
Color:red
Size:24inch
Stolen in Portland, OR 97202
Stolen:2012-05-23
Stolen From: House. Brooklyn neighborhood, 9th and mall
Neighborhood: brooklyn
Owner: alex thornburg
OwnerEmail: alext@istours.com
Reward: 20$ and satisfaction of helping a broke dude with no bike
Description: Red schwinn le tour with black handle bar tape and black fenders. Handle bars are traditional road bike style. Silver and red forks. Shwinn in big letters ln frame. Left shifter is loose and hanging down to the side. Shifter cable is also loose.
Police record with: portland police
Police reference#: 12 44 077
Year: 2008
Brand: specialized
Model: langster
Color:White/Blue/Red
Size:54
Serial:WUD70624391B
Photo: http://campl.us/bxve9sfoiyq
Stolen in Portland, OR 97207
Stolen:2012-05-23
Stolen From: PSU between Lincoln Hall and Cramer Hall by the street car track
Neighborhood: PSU area
Owner: paige SIMPSON
OwnerEmail: paige6221@gmail.com
Reward: 100
Description: Specialized Langster London edition. Red bar tape, blue Rubino tire on the front, solid black tire on the back. Red anodized chain. White seat. Red wheels. Blue Sugino Comp crank.
Police record with: PSU Security & PPD
Police reference#: 12-153188
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike
Brand: Trek
Model: Mountain Bike
Color:Red
Size:small 15?
Stolen in Portland, OR 97215
Stolen:2012-05-23
Stolen From: Tabor View Apartments
Neighborhood: SE, Mt. Tabor
Owner: Yvonne Garcia
OwnerEmail: bike@trilliumtechsolutions.com
Description: Scratch in the paint (down to the metal) on the upper frame
Police record with: Portland PD
Police reference#: 12-153185
Not surprisingly, the death of Kathryn Rickson while she rode in a bike lane just one block from Portland City Hall has got a lot of people talking. Apart from the grieving we do as a community when something like this happens, many people are turning their feelings toward finding a solution to the problems they feel might have led to the collision.
Two major strains of discussion have emerged: large trucks and the safety issues they pose in tight, urban environments; and how we design bicycle access into our roads. Today I want to focus on the issue of truck safety (I am not dismissing the bikeway design issue; but it’s worth noting that we covered that at length following a similar fatality back in October 2007).
To get a better understanding about freight movement and truck safety downtown, I got in touch with Corky Collier. Collier is the former chair of the Portland Freight Committee, which is an advisory group to the Bureau of Transportation (think of it as the Bicycle Advisory Committee, but for freight). Collier is also the executive director of the Columbia Corridor Association, a non-profit business association that represents industries along the Columbia River.
Year: 2002
Brand: Specialized
Model: Stumpjumper
Color:Blue
Size:I’m 5’9
Photo: http://imgs.inkfrog.com/pix/modoboutique/STOLEN_Specialized_Stumpjumper.JPG
Stolen in Portland, OR 97202
Stolen:2012-05-23
Stolen From: 915 SE MALL (Near Milwaukie & Holgate, 97202)
Neighborhood: Brooklyn
Owner: Alex Thornburg
OwnerEmail: thornburgmedia@gmail.com
Reward: $100
Description: 2002 Specialized Stumpjumper, hardtail, blue in color, cable lock around the handlebars, coffee holder on the handlebars, worn out tires, black bmx pedals,
Police record with: Portland police
Police reference#: case# 12 44 077
This registrant has documented proof of ownership of this bike