Amid all the talk about how to “fix congestion” there’s one cheap and relatively simple solution staring us in the face: dedicated lanes for efficient vehicles like bikes and buses.
Portland Fire & Rescue and the Portland Police Bureau have arrested a man who admits to setting several fires in northeast earlier this year. One of the fires damaged the roof and exterior walls of Lumberyard Bike Park and a storage trailer owned by the nonprofit NW Trail Alliance.
Allen Singerhouse is accused of starting the August 29th fire that began near a vacant lot at NE 82nd and Siskiyou. The fire quickly spread south toward houses and businesses across the street from Madison High School. In the end it caused more than $1 million in damages.
Experienced Frontend Web Developer
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We are looking for a frontend web developer to work on our React based app, which powers the majority of the user interface of https://ridewithgps.com. We are interested in local candidates, but would consider the right remote candidate. We are only interviewing people with prior production experience with complex webapps written in React or a similar modern framework.
Email your resume to careers@ridewithgps.com, and include a paragraph or two on your relationship to cycling, and to technology. We are actively interviewing candidates, so don't hesitate in sending us an email. We will do a quick phone screen, and would move to an in-person interview if there is a clear fit. We are looking forward a conversation with you! We are an equal opportunity employer, and consider all qualified candidates regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, age, physical ability or limitation, religion, or political affiliation.
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We are looking for an experienced copywriter to take our digital content and marketing efforts to the next level. Up until now we have delegated copywriting to the developers writing code, and to the support staff responding to user facing tickets. We are now undertaking a decent marketing push, where we are making more marketing content than ever before. We also will be reworking all of our help documentation in a clear, less verbose, and consistent style. We are ready to consolidate these responsibilities, and bring on someone who can take quality and consistency to the next level.
Email your resume to careers@ridewithgps.com, and include a paragraph or two on your relationship to cycling, and to technology. We are actively interviewing candidates, so don't hesitate in sending us an email. We will do a quick phone screen, and would move to an in-person interview if there is a clear fit. We are looking forward a conversation with you! We are an equal opportunity employer, and consider all qualified candidates regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, age, physical ability or limitation, religion, or political affiliation.
“This feels quite a bit bigger than bike racing. This is an event for the city and for Sellwood.”
— Erik Tonkin, race organizer
Portland’s cyclocross season ended with a bang on Sunday as our community embraced an exciting new venue and event. Bridge City CX was truly an instant classic.
560 racers signed up for a challenging and fun course many said was the best they’d ever ridden. There were slippery s-turns, fast straightaways, and long sections of deep sand on the Willamette riverfront. Toward the end of the day the tide pushed up and left racers with just a few inches of dry sand.
Open Men 1/2/3 winner Carl Decker, a veteran pro who’s raced bikes all over the world, said after his race that, “This was as good as any course I’ve ridden. It was quintessential ‘cross.”
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We are looking for an experienced DevOps engineer, to take over and work on improving our production infrastructure. See job posting for details. We are looking for a local candidate, but the right remote candidate could be considered.
Email your resume to careers@ridewithgps.com, and include a paragraph or two on your relationship to cycling, and to technology. We are actively interviewing candidates, so don’t hesitate in sending us an email. We will do a quick phone screen, and would move to an in-person interview if there is a clear fit. We are looking forward a conversation with you! We are an equal opportunity employer, and consider all qualified candidates regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, age, physical ability or limitation, religion, or political affiliation.
Just about the only thing better than the recent announcement of a new cyclocross race at a close-in venue this coming Sunday (11/24) is to see how the community has come together to help make it great.
The response to this new race has been huge.
“Time [the Portland Freight Committee] was sent packing or at least reconfigured”
— Lenny Anderson
My visit to the Portland Freight Committee (PFC) earlier this month led to an interesting revelation: Turns out, members of this influential committee think the use of large freight trucks on North Lombard should be prioritized above everything else. To say the committee is skeptical of the Oregon Department of Transportation’s plan to remove two driving lanes to make room for a bike lanes and other updates is an understatement.
Reader Lenny Anderson took notice.
Lenny knows a thing or three about how freight advocacy works in this town. Before retiring in 2013, he spent 13 years improving access to-and-from the industrial district on Swan Island (home to UPS, FedEx, and others). Known to many as “Mr. Swan Island,” one reason Lenny was so good at his job is that he understood the way to move more freight was to encourage bicycling and transit use and remove as many single-occupancy automobile users as possible. “Every two people that ride down here is a semi!” he once said.
Time to get your plans in order for the weekend.
