Job Alert: Austin Bike Share (Multiple Positions) – Austin, Texas

September 25, 2013 at 5:01 pm

Got these vacancy announcement though the grapevine. Attached are the 3 Director-level positions for which Austin B-Cycle Bike Share system is accepting resumes for right now with the goal of hiring by mid-October and a November 11 start date. There will also be some hourly fleet balancing staff we will be hiring once we have selected the Operations Director.

Image courtesy: Austin B-Cycle Bike Share

Image courtesy: Austin B-Cycle Bike Share

Austin Bike Share – Finance Director

Austin Bike Share – Operations Director

Austin Bike Share – Marketing Director

If you have any questions, reach Exec. Director Elliott McFadden (elliott@bikeshareofaustin.com).  Good luck to all applicants.

 

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Clueless Colorado Gubernatorial Candidate, Warns Of U.N. Plot To Destroy America With Bike-Sharing Programs

August 4, 2010 at 5:53 pm

After reading this news item below, I’m totally out of words and appalled at the level of ignorance and fear mongering that goes in politics.. Dear politicians, please stay away from stuff when you don’t really know what you are talking about

Amplify’d from www.huffingtonpost.com

Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes is warning voters that Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper’s policies, particularly his efforts to boost bike riding, are “converting Denver into a United Nations community.”

“This is all very well-disguised, but it will be exposed,” Maes told about 50 supporters who showed up at a campaign rally last week in Centennial.

Okay, here’s the mystery that Maes alone has penetrated. Denver is a member in something called the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives. They’ve been a member since 1992. It is an “international association that promotes sustainable development.” One of the things that contributes to sustainability and an overall pleasant quality of life is a bike-sharing program called “B-Cycle” which has taken donations and grant monies to make 400 bicycles available for the residents of Denver to tool around on when the spirit moves them. Hickenlooper has praised the program so Maes is trying to make the case that it’s a UN plot to deprive people of “freedom.”

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