At long last, St Louis to hire dedicated bike/ped coordinator; Application deadline August 7th

At long last, St. Louis City is hiring a dedicated bicycle and pedestrian coordinator.  For over a decade advocates have called for the city to budget for and hire a dedicated bicycle/pedestrian coordinator.  Recently the pressure has mounted because the response to the St Louis City bicycle friendly Community application called for the city to hire a dedicated, professional bike/ped coordinator, and St. Louis-based advocacy group Trailnet has ratcheted up the pressure for the city to improve bike/ped safety and hire the coordinator soon.

St. Louis Mayor Slay and Alderman Scott Ogilvie are two of the major supporters of improvements for bicycling and walking in St. Louis City government

The St Louis Post-Dispatch wrote:

The city is looking to hire a bike/pedestrian coordinator to plan for and respond to the needs of cyclists and pedestrians.

The salary range for the job is $47,814 to $73,788, the city said in a job post, for what is described as a “professional traffic engineering position.”

Job duties will include coordinating bicycle and pedestrian projects; being a point of contact for bike- and pedestrian-related grants, awards and the bike share program; and implementing bike lanes, shared lane markings, signs, bike racks, bike corrals, better crosswalks and pedestrian signals.

A bachelor’s degree in urban planning or transportation planning, or in traffic or civil engineering or a directly related field, is required. The city also wants five years’ experience in transportation planning, land use planning and in urban planning and design.

“Our new bike/pedestrian coordinator will help make St. Louis a more bikable, walkable place to live, work, and explore by considering everyone — not just those behind the wheel — when it comes to designing and maintaining our streets,” Mayor Francis Slay said in a statement Friday.

The deadline to apply is Aug. 7.

St. Louis city has gradually moved towards becoming more bicycle and pedestrian friendly.  But part of that process is following national standards and recommendations, including the recommendation to have a full-time, dedicated, bicycle and pedestrian coordinator.  We congratulate St. Louis City and the local advocates who have helped make this happen.

Link to the bike/ped coordinator job posting is here.

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