Well lookey here, we’ve got a job listing from a bike shop in Pennsylvania. We’re tickled that a place so far away sees value in paying for a job listing with us; but it’s also a sign of the times that they think they can lure someone away from Portland!
Check out this week’s listings below…
–> Consumer Service Rep – Yakima Products, Inc.
The Historic Columbia River Highway Advisory Committee will meet on Thursday, March 15 at 10 a.m. at the Corbett Fire Station.
On the agenda:
– Updates on the current trail construction from Wyeth to Lindsey Creek.
– Design updates for the final five miles: from Viento State Park to Ruthton Park and the Mitchell Point Crossing.
– The Columbia Gorge Express planning process has started and we will receive an update on the changes to the service for this season.
– Updates on the long-term Historic Highway Congestion and Safety Planning process.
The full agenda will be available online before the meeting.
You can add another bike-related topic that researchers at Portland State University have gained national notoriety for: equity in bike share systems.
PSU’s Transportation Research and Education Consortium (TREC) just won a grant worth nearly $75,000 from the Better Bike Share Partnership. The award, announced today by People for Bikes, is part of $410,000 split between eight projects across the country.
The money will go toward a “national assessment of bike share equity programs.” Here’s more about the project:
Portland State’s research team will document the programs and strategies developed to address equity in bike share across the U.S., and identify the definitions and measures of success for each of these efforts. The result will be a catalog of equity approaches employed, an aggregated summary of key elements of each approach or strategy, and a record of which metrics agencies used to assess if they are meeting their equity goals, along with the various ways agencies are assessing their programs.
It’s official: For the first time since 2012 Portland’s Sunday Parkways event will happen on the west side of the Willamette River.
Without a single word of debate, the nine members of the Joint Committee on Transportation voted in favor of an expansion of Oregon’s bike tax that will result in it covering more children’s bicycles. (UPDATE: As of Saturday, March 3rd the full Oregon House and Senate passed the bill with a total vote margin of 70-10. The bill now awaits Governor Brown’s signature.)
Job Title *
Lead Bicycle Mechanic
Company/Organization *
The Common Wheel
Job Description *
Location: The Common Wheel Bicycle Shop, 324 N Queen St, Lancaster PA 17603
Start Date: Immediately
The Common Wheel needs YOU.
Overview:
The Common Wheel (TCW) is a community bicycle shop located in the heart of Lancaster City and dedicated to a customer base that uses bicycles for transportation.
We are seeking a full-time expert bicycle mechanic to join our energetic, hard-working culture. The ideal candidate will be equally at home press fitting a bottom bracket or installing a basket and bell on an around town cruiser.
Lancaster is a progressive city and our new shop is located on the quirky and eclectic 300 block of North Queen Street in proximity to restaurants, art galleries, and barber shops that serve beer. Our service area is surrounded by a bar that encourages community members to hang out and talk shop while we work on bikes and entertain dreams for a life lived on two wheels.
As Lead Mechanic, you will be the smile that greets customers who come through our door. You bleed passion for bikes and believe that cycling is an expression of self and an opportunity for all.
Lead Mechanic Responsibilities:
– Lead all bicycle builds and service
– Provide willing and friendly sales and service to customers
– Educate customers about the mission of The Common Wheel
– Train and supervise service technicians and youth apprentices
– Monitor and maintain inventory of service parts and supplies
– Provide input on shop inventory and merchandise selection
– Share your authority on local bicycle routes and culture
Required Skills:
– Two years of bicycle shop service experience
– Passion for the use of bicycles as tools for transportation
– A mind that is inclusive, adaptable, and open to change and new ideas
– A heart that is enthusiastic about people from all walks of life
– A soul that embraces the power of bikes to transform lives and communities
– Ability to lift 50 lbs.
– Must be available day, evening, and weekend hours
Icing on the Cake:
– Over two years service experience with management responsibilities
– Experience with nonprofit programming
– Retail sales experience
– Commuting and bikepacking experience
Compensation Overview:
– Competitive full-time salary
– Paid time off
– Health insurance
– Employee discount
– Opportunities to learn and grow and have your own unique impact on our organization, our cause, and our community
How The Common Wheel Gives:
Founded in 2014, The Common Wheel is a nonprofit organization that uses education, advocacy, and equipment sales and service to promote the bicycle as a primary mode of transportation in Lancaster.
In addition to our bicycle shop on North Queen Street, we run a community center on East King Street with multiple programs that use the power of bikes to transform lives. Every transaction at the Queen Street shop directly supports TCW programming in the community. For each new bike purchased, The Common Wheel moves another community member toward the transportation independence of bicycle ownership.
The Common Wheel operates under the following guidelines:
– We’re for getting as many people riding as possible
– We’re for making a positive impact on our community and culture
– We’re for building a kick-ass urban bike community in our special little city
– We’re for the bike-curious and seasoned veterans alike
– We’re for helping people realize their dreams on two wheels
– We’re for providing training and job opportunities to underserved youth in our city
– We’re for building awesome bikes, providing impeccable (and friendly) service, and selling great products that improve people’s experiences
– We’re for facilitating all of those small, magical moments that bikes can create
How to Apply *
Individuals with diverse abilities and experiences are encouraged to apply. Please email a resume and cover letter to Ted Houser, Director of Operations, ted@thecommonwheel.com
March is here and the sun is shining! That means we’re slowly creeping out of winter and into spring.
And that’s not the only thing we’re grateful for today: I’m also happy to share that our friends at Abus bike locks have stepped up once again to support our work and promote their products. Abus is now the title sponsor of our Weekend Guide and the BikePortland Calendar. If your business wants to work with us, opportunities are filling up quickly. Get in touch today to see how you can build your brand and sales while helping independent community journalism thrive.
Now back to our regularly scheduled plan-making. Here’s the list of the best bikey things to do this weekend…
Another cool photo from long-ago on Vintage Portland of an intersection that many of us ride daily.
Link to their post:
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Job Title *
Mechanic/Sales
Company/Organization *
Joe Bike
Job Description *
Joe Bike is looking for a friendly mechanic for a year-round, full-time position. You’ll work on a wide variety of bikes, talk with a wide variety of customers, and generally help keep the shop humming. We need a mature team player who communicates well. Best if your interests align with ours, so check out our offerings online or visit us in person and introduce yourself.
Benefits: good health insurance, paid vacation time, paid holidays, sick pay, and use of the shop’s winter retreat in Tucson, Arizona.
How to Apply *
Stop by with your resume and references, preferably during nonpeak hours such as 10-3 pm weekdays.
We haven’t turned back the rising tide of deaths and injuries on our streets; but we’re getting better at analyzing it and we’ve laid the groundwork for future progress.
That’s the vibe from the Portland Bureau of Transportation as noted in their first annual Vision Zero Progress Report published yesterday. Stating that 2017 was, “A year of tragedy and foundation building,” the agency detailed their policy and project efforts and offered a sad recap of all the traffic deaths last year.
Here are our takeaways…
The City of Portland is in the planning stages of their Lloyd to Woodlawn Neighborhood Greenway project and they held the first open house last night.
When complete, the route will connect the forthcoming Sullivan’s Crossing bridge (cross I-84) to Dekum Street in Woodlawn with a low-stress street where people can feel walking and biking.
Billed as a “listening session,” the Bureau of Transportation was careful at last night’s jam-packed event to let residents know they haven’t made any concrete decisions about the designs or the alignment yet. As we reported earlier this month, PBOT has looked at both NE 7th and NE 9th and both streets are still technically on the table. The poster boards shown to attendees at the event were mostly about greenways in general. However, there were some design concepts shown and we learned a few new details about what’s in the works.
In addition to getting our first glimpse at what the future greenway could look like, we also began to see what a future debate about 7th or 9th might look like. Keep in mind that PBOT won’t put the route completely on either street. The two options — as presented last night in the graphic below — include a mix of 7th and 9th or what they’re calling, “NE 7th & Area Mitigation” where PBOT would focus mostly on 7th and heavily monitor adjacent streets to mitigate for any diverted traffic.
This guest post is by Tom Howe, the man behind the Puddlecycle ride series. His last post was about biking to the solar eclipse.
“If you had told me at that time that those tracks would one day be a bike path with 250,000 riders annually, I wouldn’t have believed it.”
The Salmonberry Trail is a project that will make use of a derelict rail line from the current end of the Banks-Vernonia Trail all the way to the Oregon coast. The trail has been in the planning stages for a long time, but if Virginia’s experience with the state’s 34-mile Creeper Trail is any indication, Oregon would do well to complete the Salmonberry sooner rather than later.
Back in the 1980s, the Virginia Creeper was itself an abandoned rail line that the US Forest Service decided to make into a recreation trail. Given the very rural nature of the area, this idea was met with some skepticism, but the trail has become wildly successful beyond anyone’s expectations. The trail holds special significance to me, as I once lived in Abingdon just a few blocks from the abandoned rail line. As neighborhood kids, we’d go over to the tracks and walk over the high trestles as a foolish/daring/scary thing to do. The only thing I ever saw on the tracks was a Drasine – a motorized vehicle about the size of an automobile.
If you had told me at that time that those tracks would one day be a bike path with 250,000 riders annually, I wouldn’t have believed it. That figure is over 25 times the combined populations of the two towns along the trail – Abingdon and Damascus. Trail-related tourism is estimated at $25 million per year, and each overnight visitor spends about $700 in the area.