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The Portland Bureau of Environmental Services says a sewer project starting today on N Williams Ave will impact bicycling conditions for the next two months.
The project is on Williams between Fargo and Cook and the construction zone will be active from 7:00 am to 3:00 pm each day.
Below is a map and description the project (download full PDF here). Please be advised…
This week’s Monday Roundup is brought to you by the Ride the Heart of the Valley Bike Ride. Set for April 18th, this ride is a benefit for the Oregon State University College of Veterinary Medicine and the Boys and Girls Club of Corvallis.
Here are the bike-related links that caught our eyes this week:
Ice bikes: Hot idea in a very cold Buffalo winter.
Bike pants: Levi’s has introduced the first female cuts of its ‘Commuter’ jeans line which is specially made for bike riders.
We’ve had three great job opportunities listed this week, one of which has a particularly memorable title. Check them out via the links below…
In the parts of Portland where neighborhood greenways exist, they’re the most pleasant way to get around. Installing them is cheap, fast and politically popular because (other than the occasional traffic diverter) they basically bother nobody.
After its biking advocates spent much of the 2000s trying and failing to build meaningful networks of protected bike lanes on commercial streets, Portland rolled out 40 miles of comfortable connected neighborhood greenways and (as we shared in Monday’s roundup) rightly earned them a spot among Streetfilms’ 10 global best practices for street design.
But, as reader CarsAreFunToo showed in a comment on Thursday’s post about speed enforcement on high-crash corridors, they also seem to come with a big indirect political cost.
After a member survey found huge overlap between car2go users and bicycle users in Portland, the carsharing service car2go has now added rear bike racks to half of its 500-car local fleet.
Portland is the first city to get the racks, which are set up in such a way that the rear tailgate of the car2go can’t open on cars that have the racks. (The rear window, however, can still be opened.)
This decision was announced in December, following a successful trial and pilot period with 30 racks scattered through the fleet, car2go announced that it was moving up to 50 percent of its cars.
Even if you carry a smartphone, there are still a few times when paper does some jobs best. One of those times is the middle of a bike trip.
Clackamas County is updating their Bike It! map and has launched a web survey this month to get advice on what the new version should offer.
Last year, we wrote about the county’s virtual open house to gather information about the best routes through the county to bike in. In this related effort, the county is working to figure out how best to convey route and destination information.
Portland’s 10 high-crash corridors would be dotted with radar cameras that automatically detect excessive speeding, under a proposed law due for its first public hearing on Monday.
House Bill 2621 would apply only to the City of Portland, and only on streets with crash rates more than 25 percent higher than other streets with the same speed limit.
The City of Portland’s defensive legal move to ban mountain biking in Southwest Portland’s River View Natural Area is an unfair breach of trust with mountain bikers, according to The Oregonian’s editorial board.
“River View, where cycling has occurred for years, remained the best city option for serious, if limited, mountain bike trails,” the newspaper wrote in a scathing editorial published online Wednesday. “To that end, cyclists attended meetings, participated enthusiastically in the public process upon which Portland places so much emphasis and trusted the city to act in good faith. The city did not.”
This is a guest post by Eli Spevak of Orange Splot. Spevak, who the Portland Mercury once described as “the coolest condo developer ever,” develops small, often freestanding homes in single-family neighborhoods with a goal of increasing the city’s supply of housing that’s both affordable and environmentally low-impact.
Neighbors bemoan the demolition of older homes and the scale of new ones – and worry for the character of their neighborhoods.
Demographers see the trend toward more and smaller households – and wonder where they’ll be able to find enough right-sized and affordable homes.
Planners recognize that we can’t rely only on high density centers and corridors to accommodate all expected new residents; neighborhoods will need to play a role too.
Job Title
Bike Mechanic
Company/Organization
Athletes Lounge
Job Description
Athletes Lounge is looking for a full time Experienced Bicycle Mechanic. This position includes Medical and payed time off. Experience with Di2 a plus!
How to Apply
Send resume and cover letter to Gary@athleteslounge.co
Job Title
Everything…
Company/Organization
Seven Corners Cycles!
Job Description
Seven Corners Cycles has one opening for a full-time, seasonal sales/mechanic/phone-answering superhero. You MUST be client-focused. Not in the corporate buzzword kind of way, but in the “this is my natural self” kind of way. Seriously. You also need to possess a general mechanical aptitude that you can apply directly to bicycles. We expect that you can do bicycle work efficiently and happily. Finally, we expect you to ride bikes and love Taylor Swift. This makes you much more interesting to talk to.
We will require you to work a split schedule. You will probably have Monday and Wednesday off. Employment is guaranteed through the end of September, with the possibility of extension.
In return, you will be receive the following- free beer (21+), free soda (20-), free coffee, probably a bunch of free lunches, wholesale pricing on bike parts as long as we still like you, AND a competitive-ish hourly wage. Oh, AND you get to work next to Trevor Spahr all day, which requires no further explanation.
How to Apply
EMAIL your resume to 7cornerscycles@gmail.com. Please resist the urge to call!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST!
Though it’s possible to get between central Gresham and the Springwater Corridor by bike lane, there’s never been a truly comfortable link between the two, or first-rate bike connection between Gresham’s central business district and the dense Rockwood area. That’s about to change.
Gresham is building a wide new paved path alongside the MAX tracks between the Cleveland Avenue station, at the eastern end of the Blue Line, and the Ruby Junction station where many TriMet trains stop their runs to go out of service.