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Job: Rider / Brand Ambassador – B-line Sustainable Urban Delivery

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Job Title *
Rider / Brand Ambassador

Company/Organization *
B-line Sustainable Urban Delivery

Job Description *
B-Line Sustainable Urban Delivery is a delivery and promotions company focused on the urban core of Portland. We work with regional and national brands to deliver authentic experiences with their products, via advertising, promotions, and logistics services. You may have seen us zooming around on our yellow cargo tricycles making deliveries or representing awesome brands such as Guayaki Brand Yerba Mate and CLIF Bar at local events.

We are currently looking for Riders and/or Brand Ambassadors to join our team!

BRAND AMBASSADOR

Brand Ambassadors engage the public while sharing products and information about our clients during street fairs, festivals, and sunny days. Ambassadors must have excellent communication skills and be energetic, cheerful, and professional as you will be representing our company as well as our clients.

Work is event-based; events are generally Thursday and Friday evenings, and Saturdays and Sundays during the day. Ideal candidates will have flexible schedules and availability during those times. Experience in sales, customer service, retail or other fast-paced customer-facing environments are a plus.

RIDER

The role of a B-Line rider is to be the primary public face of B-Line while executing our delivery and advertising promises to our clients. B-Line riders are responsible for all aspects of client delivery including, but not limited to: packing, transporting product, delivering product, obtaining account signatures and processing delivery paperwork, recording delivery data, and assisting with the daily upkeep of the cargo trikes. Riders are expected to follow the standard operating procedures while promoting our mission and values in the public. Work is based on a delivery schedule set weekly, with regular day shifts available (approx. 7:30-3:30 daily), weekday and weekend shifts available.

*Qualifications:
Service industry, delivery and/or route experience preferred. Strong customer-facing experience. Ability to ride and navigate the city by bike. Ability to lift, carry, transport product (upwards 50 lbs) into trikes and into delivery locations such as restaurants, offices, etc. Clean driving record. Flexibility and openness to an entrepreneurial environment are necessary for success. Commitment to B-Line’s mission and impact goals.

How to Apply *
Do either of these descriptions sound like you? Please send your resume and a statement about you and why you’d make a great Brand Ambassador and/or Rider to jobs@b-linepdx.com. Please include “RIDER” and/or “BRAND AMBASSADOR” in the subject line.

Bikes and trains: Free meetup at the Green Dragon tonight

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Bikes on Amtrak

More Amtrak lines are allowing this.
(Photo: Will Vanlue)

They’re the smallest and the biggest vehicles many people use during their lives, and they keep becoming a better travel pair.

A free event Wednesday evening will bring a rail-riding college student to Portland to talk about various aspects of bicycle-and-train travel.

The latest major improvement on this front in the United States is Amtrak’s expanded roll-on bike service, a 2013 shift by the national passenger rail company that came after years of advocacy from people who saw the potential.

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$8.4 million downtown protected bike lane plans will start this summer, city says

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The door-zone bike lane on Broadway is not very comfortable for most beginning riders.
(Photos: M.Andersen/BikePortland)

Among the many projects funded this month by Portland voters is one we first covered in early 2013: a network of protected bike lanes in downtown Portland.

The new local gas tax will send a projected $2.8 million to the project, joining with $6 million in federal funds the project scored in 2013 and $600,000 in other local funds.

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Welcome to Portland’s new era of open streets

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Our streets could thrive if we let them.
(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland)

Something big is happening in Portland: We’re entering an era where streets are seen as places for much more than private vehicle travel and storage. An era where the public right-of-way can reach its potential as a thriving place that adds to the vitality and energy of our city.

Livable streets are in Portland’s DNA, but a combination of factors have recently come together to energize and formalize the movement and soon it could be enshrined in official city policy.

The City of Portland Bureau of Transportation is in the process of selecting a private firm to develop a “Livable Streets Strategy.” According to the request for proposals (PDF), the city is, “looking at innovative ways to open Portland’s streets, parking spaces, plazas, and alleys to a range of events, programming, and physical infrastructure that reinforce the idea that public streets are public places to be enjoyed by all ages and abilities.”

We knew something special was afoot ever since Transportation Commissioner began literally jumping up-and-down and chanting “Bet-ter Block! Bet-ter Block!” at the opening of the Better Naito project in 2015. The three-way romance between City Hall, the Bureau of Transportation and Better Block PDX has helped create the political and public momentum neede to re-think how we use our streets. But it didn’t start there.

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What I learned at the Portland Electric Bike Expo

Keola Munos with A2B's heavy-duty lineup.(Photos: M.Andersen/BikePortland)
Keola Munos with A2B’s heavy-duty lineup.
(Photos: M.Andersen/BikePortland)

As Jonathan wrote on Friday, this weekend’s Electric Bike Expo has been a milestone for Portland, a metro area that offers a rich bike-friendly culture but also has enough hills that many people are effectively shut out of it.

Enter e-bikes. And enter the expo, a free event outside the Lloyd Center movie theater that brought in vendors from around the country. As an e-bike newbie — I’ve written about them plenty but only ridden one before — I spent a few hours there on Saturday to see some of the products and talk to the customers and sellers. Here’s a quick tour of what I found.

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Traffic diverter on SE Ankeny & 15th is in progress

Ankeny pavement markings, looking southwest. Ted Timmons, CC-BY 3.0.

Ankeny pavement markings, looking southwest.

This dispatch from the street comes from contributor/subscriber Ted Timmons

There’s been a lot of coverage of the SE Ankeny bikeway improvements and the city posted their plans, but I rolled through there Friday and noticed it’s actually becoming a reality. The diverter is diagonal with two exceptions: the center section is in line with the bike path and one side of the diverter had to be placed differently to accommodate a manhole cover.

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The Monday Roundup: Adhesive cars, driving ethics & more

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(Image: Google)

This week’s Monday Roundup is sponsored by Hassalo on Eighth, now leasing in the Lloyd District.

Here are the bike-related links from around the world that caught our eyes this week:

Adhesive cars: Google has patented a “sticky layer” to hold people on the hood of self-driving cars after a collision.

Car ethics: Should a robot car choose to kill its driver or a child in front of it? There’s a more fundamental ethical question, says N+1. “Why was the car going so damn fast in the first place?”

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Stolen Santa Cruz MTBs

Our Santa Cruz bikes were jacked either this morning from our garage in Hillsboro. We live in a quiet neighborhood and whoever stole our bikes knew what they wanted as the bikes were all the way in the back of the garage and not obvious from the street.
One is a large gray Mens’ Heckler with the Shimano unified brake/shifter combo levers, which they didn’t make for very long so this should be easy to spot.
The other was my girlfriend’s gold flake small Juliana, a very unique color, with SRAM XO components, so this should be easy to spot as well.

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