Ben Ritter
@bennetworks.bsky.social
Product and data networking nerd. Care about making Seattle more walkable and safe to cycle. Thoughts my own. he/him
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Bradley is a cool guy and a regular sight around town. This truly is shameful for the city and for Mayor Harrell in particular.
August 22, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Bradley is a cool guy and a regular sight around town. This truly is shameful for the city and for Mayor Harrell in particular.
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Man struck from behind while biking on section of Lake Washington Blvd where city dropped planned safety upgrades
#SEAbikes #Seattle
#SEAbikes #Seattle
Man struck from behind while biking on section of Lake Washington Blvd where city dropped planned safety upgrades
Photo from Bradley Hawkins. If you've ever seen someone biking around town pulling a bright yellow cello case in a bike trailer, you've seen Bradley Hawkins. Even without his cello, he's a self-identified "die-hard bicycle dude" who has been biking pretty much everywhere for a long time. But all that could have easily come to an end last week when someone driving a Hyundai Elantra ran into him from behind while he was biking on Lake Washington Boulevard on a section of road where…
www.seattlebikeblog.com
August 22, 2025 at 7:36 PM
@seattledot.bsky.social there was a modal filter which prevents cars from driving across Terry through Denny removed during the Denny repaving. It helps protect pedestrians. Is it going to be replaced?
August 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
@seattledot.bsky.social there was a modal filter which prevents cars from driving across Terry through Denny removed during the Denny repaving. It helps protect pedestrians. Is it going to be replaced?
Oh. My. God.
July 28, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Oh. My. God.
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Advocacy gets results, folks!
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July 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Advocacy gets results, folks!
Donate: seattlegreenways.org/donate
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Vision Zero means cancelling all physical speed control infrastructure and all stop signs on a corridor where there were two hit and run crashes in the last three weekends.
Seattle Parks has finally broken the silence on phase 2 of planned traffic calming on Lake Washington Boulevard...and has officially dropped ANY additional speed cushions from the plan, along with a redesign of the intersection at S Orcas Street to improve pedestrian safety.
July 9, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Vision Zero means cancelling all physical speed control infrastructure and all stop signs on a corridor where there were two hit and run crashes in the last three weekends.
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A special session is clearly necessary - and there is simply no other option than new taxes on the rich and big corporations. Dems should not expect to come back from Olympia without it.
Trump tax bill an 'abomination,' Gov. Ferguson says
Gov. Bob Ferguson said he'll consider whether to call lawmakers back for a special session due to massive cuts in the GOP tax bill to Medicaid and other funds.
www.seattletimes.com
July 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
A special session is clearly necessary - and there is simply no other option than new taxes on the rich and big corporations. Dems should not expect to come back from Olympia without it.
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Seattle Parks held a public forum in December to hear public feedback on the next stage of traffic calming for Lake Washington Boulevard. These are basic, minimum-level changes on a street where the city knows everyone is speeding.
What happened next is: nothing.
What happened next is: nothing.
June 25, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Seattle Parks held a public forum in December to hear public feedback on the next stage of traffic calming for Lake Washington Boulevard. These are basic, minimum-level changes on a street where the city knows everyone is speeding.
What happened next is: nothing.
What happened next is: nothing.
@gordonofseattle.bsky.social are you aware of anyone working on a daylight bill for Seattle or Washington state?
June 23, 2025 at 9:39 PM
@gordonofseattle.bsky.social are you aware of anyone working on a daylight bill for Seattle or Washington state?
@seattledot.bsky.social 2 pedestrian signs vandalized on a bike pathway at 18th and Marion. Not far from the school. Filed a find it fix it ticket. Sad to see this antisocial behavior.
May 30, 2025 at 3:58 PM
@seattledot.bsky.social 2 pedestrian signs vandalized on a bike pathway at 18th and Marion. Not far from the school. Filed a find it fix it ticket. Sad to see this antisocial behavior.
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🐬The Pike Place closure to non-essential traffic is in effect.
April 23, 2025 at 3:23 PM
🐬The Pike Place closure to non-essential traffic is in effect.
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If you ever donated to Share The Cities for our work on land use from 2016-2023 please consider supporting @sngreenways.bsky.social who in addition to all their safe streets advocacy have also been doing great on land use.
April 18, 2025 at 5:50 AM
If you ever donated to Share The Cities for our work on land use from 2016-2023 please consider supporting @sngreenways.bsky.social who in addition to all their safe streets advocacy have also been doing great on land use.
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If the agent of an embittered KGB officer somehow won the US presidency and entered into the office bent on destroying the USA in its national influence, network of alliances, and the American people’s quality of life, what would he be doing differently?
April 9, 2025 at 3:34 AM
If the agent of an embittered KGB officer somehow won the US presidency and entered into the office bent on destroying the USA in its national influence, network of alliances, and the American people’s quality of life, what would he be doing differently?
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Senate Bill 5595 will legalize this in the State of Washington. Sign in PRO to show your support. app.leg.wa.gov/csi/Testifie...
March 11, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Senate Bill 5595 will legalize this in the State of Washington. Sign in PRO to show your support. app.leg.wa.gov/csi/Testifie...
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washington residents - after passing out of the state senate, the WA house will be reviewing eliminating parking minimums at the local government committee this week.
mark yourself as 'pro' on the bill, for major parking reforms.
app.leg.wa.gov/csi/Testifie...
mark yourself as 'pro' on the bill, for major parking reforms.
app.leg.wa.gov/csi/Testifie...
March 9, 2025 at 8:18 PM
washington residents - after passing out of the state senate, the WA house will be reviewing eliminating parking minimums at the local government committee this week.
mark yourself as 'pro' on the bill, for major parking reforms.
app.leg.wa.gov/csi/Testifie...
mark yourself as 'pro' on the bill, for major parking reforms.
app.leg.wa.gov/csi/Testifie...
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Councilmember Rob Saka’s office declined to make himself or his staff available for an April meeting to discuss public bathrooms.
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We wanted to work *with* them. How hard would it have been for them to say yes?
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We wanted to work *with* them. How hard would it have been for them to say yes?
March 3, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Councilmember Rob Saka’s office declined to make himself or his staff available for an April meeting to discuss public bathrooms.
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We wanted to work *with* them. How hard would it have been for them to say yes?
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We wanted to work *with* them. How hard would it have been for them to say yes?
@typewriteralley.bsky.social any idea when buses are returning to montlake where the lid construction was? I.e. the ST545.
December 20, 2024 at 2:04 AM
@typewriteralley.bsky.social any idea when buses are returning to montlake where the lid construction was? I.e. the ST545.