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Pronto Cycle Share is hiring for various positions needed to launch and operate Seattle’s planned bike share system. Whether you have office skills, bike fixin’ skills or people skills, they could need you.
Below are the openings at the moment, posted to their job listings web page. But they will likely be adding more as the system launch draws closer, so keep checking back.
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Firefighters had to use emergency airbags to free a 26-year-old who was struck and trapped under a semi truck near 4th and Spokane in Sodo Monday.
Images from the scene are frightening, and Seattle Police describe the victim’s injuries as “severe scrapes and fractures.” He was conscious at the scene and his injuries were described as not life-threatening.
The exact details of how the collision happened are not yet available. Here are the details so far from SPD:
A 26-year-old bicyclist suffered severe scrapes and fractures and was briefly pinned under a semi-truck after a collision in the SODO neighborhood Monday evening.
Officers and firefighters responded to 4th Ave South and South Spokane Street Just after 3 PM after receiving a report of a bicycle and semi-truck collision. The cyclist had been struck by the truck and pinned under the front axle.
Firefighters used industrial airbags to lift the truck away from the injured-but-conscious cyclist. After being freed, medics transported the man to Harborview Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries.
Traffic Collision detectives are responding to the scene to investigate the incident. The southbound lanes of 4th Ave South and westbound lanes of S Spokane Street will be closed during the investigation, likely impacting traffic in the area.
This is the second very serious collision involving a person walking or biking and a large commercial vehicle in the past week. Rebecca Scollard was killed in a collision with a CleanScapes garbage truck last week on First Hill.
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Bike volumes on the Fremont Bridge continue to break records this year, far outpacing 2013 by nearly every measure.
July was the bikiest month yet recorded, with 120,669 trips measured over the bridge. That is 2.8 percent higher than July 2013, which set a record for that year. And while that is a slower growth rate compared to the average 11 percent growth in previous months, it keeps the city on the path to breaking the one million bike trips mark by the end of the year. (more…)
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Ever since Broad Street closed for good and Mercer changed from one-way to two-way, people biking southbound on Dexter Ave have faced a new danger: Cars making right turns in front of them to access westbound Mercer.
But the city announced recently that they are taking action by banning motor vehicles from making right turns from SB Dexter onto WB Mercer, at least during the significant reroute at the intersection in place during construction. From SDOT:
The change is being implemented to eliminate conflicts between cyclists traveling through the intersection and right turning vehicles.
Travelers [in motor vehicles] heading south on Dexter Ave. N who wish to go westbound on Mercer St. may use eastbound Roy St. and southbound 9th Ave. N to reach westbound Mercer St.
Readers began voicing concerns about these right turns almost immediately after two-way Mercer went into effect. The Seattle Times reports that the action comes after two right hook collisions at that intersection in one day last week.
Cascade Bicycle Club was quick to praise the city’s effort to maintain safety on Dexter during the significant road changes in the so-called “Mercer Mess” area: (more…)
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A person walking near 8th and James was killed Thursday afternoon after a person driving a waste removal truck struck and dragged the victim down the busy First Hill street.
The victim, who has not yet been identified, died at the scene.
CleanScapes issued a statement Friday acknowledging that one of its trucks was involved in the fatal hit-and-run:
Recology CleanScapes was made aware that one of its trucks was involved in the accident on First Hill that resulted in a pedestrian fatality. Due to the ongoing investigation Recology CleanScapes is prohibited from discussing any of the details surrounding this incident. We are cooperating fully with the authorities to assist them in gathering all of the information they need to make a determination of the cause. Recology CleanScapes’ top priority in the provision of its services is the safety of the public and its employees.
All of us at Recology Cleanscapes would like to offer our deepest condolences to the family and friends of the pedestrian affected by this accident.
It remains unclear exactly how the collision happened, who was at fault or whether the person driving the truck knew initially that they had hit a person.
Police closed the street for several hours for investigation and have not yet released more details. Here’s what we know so far, from SPD: (more…)
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This morning, I had the opportunity to sit down with KUOW’s Ross Reynolds and producer Hannah Burn to chat about 2nd Avenue downtown and the city’s plans to build a protected bike lane there by September.
Burn actually took an audio recorder with her for a bike ride down 2nd the other day and chatted with a couple people about their experience biking on 2nd. No surprise, nobody finds it safe or comfortable.
You can listen to the segment online.
Reynolds told me after the segment that he might even give biking on 2nd a try once the protected bike lanes are in place. What do you think?
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