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The Washington State Department of Transportation is hiring a Bicycle and Pedestrian Coordinator.

The position will be used to “promote WSDOT’s mission of increasing the mobility of people and goods by improving the state bicycle and pedestrian system.”

The job will pay between $66,684 and $89,712 a year, according to the . It will lead the agency-wide Bicycle/Pedestrian Modal Team in developing policy and methodologies for integrating planning, design and implementation activities in the Public Transportation and Multimodal Planning divisions.

Among the duties of the coordinator: Working with the Cascade Bicycle Club to coordinate the annual statewide bicycle and pedestrian manual count program.

“This is almost a criminal transfer of money from the taxpayers to the Cascade Bicycle Club and the bike community,” ³ÉÈËXÕ¾ Radio’s Dori Monson says. “No way do they need a bicycle coordinator for the state DOT.

“This is phony job and phony transfer of money, because the organizations that make big campaign donations to the people of power, are able to leverage this … $90,000 for a phony job that does not need to exist for state DOT. Why not get tunnel built before creating phony jobs.”