The Seattle Department of Transportation is briefing the Seattle City Council Tuesday morning on its progress this year improving oversight and executing projects under its millions in annual levy spending.

In 2024, Seattle voters approved the city’s latest transportation levy, a $1.55 billion plan focused on streets, transit, sidewalk, and bike lanes for the next eight years. CHS reported on the details of those projects here in February.

Tuesday, officials will brief the council’s transportation committee on its progress in 2025 including hiring 52 new positions “to support Levy delivery” and support new programs. SDOT says the effort resulted in the new N 130th St Vision Zero Corridor Project, 20 intersections with new leading pedestrian intervals, 20 Safe Routes to Schools Projects, two high-collision safety projects, and seven new “neighborhood traffic safety improvements.”

SDOT says it also undertook “107 bridge preventative maintenance projects” in 2025 while crews reported 4,127 potholes filled. “90% within 72 hours,” SDOT says, adding that its goal is 80%.

All the counts are only through the end of the third quarter, SDOT says.

Looking ahead, SDOT says 2026 will bring a new way to track levy progress with the launch of a new dashboard in January including “quarterly updates on completed projects, with some information on in-progress work” plus spending and budget details.

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