(The Center Square) – One year into Seattle’s $1.55 billion transportation levy, the Seattle Department of Transportation has fallen short of multiple 2025 performance targets, with officials now pinning their hopes on a yet-to-be-seated funding task force to get things back on track.
The eight-year Levy to Move Seattle, approved by voters in 2024, costs the median homeowner in Seattle $530 a year. This year, $176.8 million was allocated, but through September, SDOT is significantly trailing the targets set in its own 2025 Transportation Levy Delivery Plan.
SDOT Major Projects Manager Megan Hoyt acknowledged Tuesday that many new programs needing more thoughtful programming did not have many deliverables in 2025. Street maintenance and modernization – the largest category at $43 million – remains well behind schedule…