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Seattle Department of Transportation

Seattle Municipal Tower 700 5th Ave
Seattle, WA 98104
United States of America
206.684.7623

Press Releases

The project will provide improved or relocated bus shelters, improved lighting and wider sidewalks that will allow buses to stay in-lane while riders board and exit by 2027.
July 14, 2025
The 2024 Seattle Commute Survey is conducted in partnership with Commute Seattle, SDOT and the University of Washington’s Mobility Innovation Center and provides insights into...
April 30, 2025
The Ballard Link Extension will add 7.7 miles of light rail, connecting downtown Seattle to Ballard, while the West Seattle Link Extension will add 4.1 miles of light rail from...
Feb. 26, 2025
The project, which began initial construction in June 2024, is expected to provide an overall five to 10 percent transit travel time savings.
Jan. 10, 2025
The Georgetown to Downtown project will add protected bike and scooter lanes on busy arterial streets to keep people biking and scooting separated from cars and trucks.
Nov. 4, 2024
The RapidRide J Line will strengthen vital neighborhood connections between existing Link light-rail stations in the U District and downtown Seattle and other RapidRide bus lines...
Oct. 9, 2024
Tests will be conducted to test performance of the South Lake Union Streetcar before reopening the service to the public.
Aug. 29, 2024

News

The permit now requires bike and scooter share companies to use new technology that detects when someone on a scooter is skidding, jumping or riding recklessly on a sidewalk....
May 18, 2026
The levy provides funding to maintain and modernize the city’s transportation infrastructure by building sidewalks, paving streets, repairing bridges and improving transit connections...
April 8, 2026

Articles

Personnel updates from around the public transit industry.
March 7, 2025
King County Metro Transit
King County Metro Transit bus.
The goals of the project, which is set to begin construction in early June, are to reduce transit travel times, improve transit reliability and increase safety and transit access...
May 28, 2024
The $1.45 billion levy proposal builds on the Seattle Transportation Plan and the One Seattle Plan and includes $145 million in funds to support bus and light-rail projects and...
May 6, 2024
The 2.3-mile BRT line will begin construction this fall and will serve historically underserved, densely populated neighborhoods on its east-west route when it opens in 2024.
Aug. 10, 2021
The BRT projects in California, Utah and Washington state are nearing completion of the statutory and regulatory requirements prior to receipt of a grant agreement.
April 6, 2021

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Additional content from Seattle Department of Transportation

If approved by voters, the eight-year $1.55 billion transportation levy will provide funding to enhance the city’s transportation infrastructure.
July 11, 2024
The goal of the plan is to enhance transportation in the Seattle, Wash., area with more than 81 projects that could be pursued during the next two decades.
April 26, 2024
The eight-year levy recommends more funding to repair bridges, repave streets and to connect neighborhoods to light rail.
April 8, 2024
SDOT is piloting new street treatments to discourage people driving personal vehicles in bus-only lanes.
Dec. 5, 2023
King County Metro
King County Metro bus.
The project, which will create a safer and more reliable bus route and Seattle’s first-ever freight- and bus-only lane, now moves to the contractor selection process, with construction...
Nov. 21, 2023
The project upgrades King County Metro’ Transit’s Route 70 with an improved RapidRide level of service that will enhance connections to Downtown, Belltown, South Lake Union, Eastlake...
Nov. 1, 2023
The new cameras will allow the city to collect a larger data set for a more robust analysis of the impact and effectiveness of automated enforcement programs.
Aug. 16, 2023
The change includes King County Metro revising bus schedules and adding bus trips funded by the Seattle Transit Measure.
March 10, 2023
King County Metro
King County
These funds represent the amount collected but held in reserve while the Washington Supreme Court considered the legality of Tim Eyman’s Initiative 976.
Feb. 3, 2021
Seattle Department of Transportation
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The Seattle Streetcar program saw an 18 percent ridership increase, including a 31 percent increase on the First Hill line, partially thanks to the easy connections to Metro Transit...
Aug. 2, 2019
In an effort to guide the surge of new technology that is rapidly transforming transportation systems in cities across the world, the Seattle Department of Transportation launched...
Sept. 12, 2017