Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson Issues Executive Order to Speed up Vision Zero Safety Work

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson issues executive order to speed up Vision Zero safety work

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Wilson’s executive order, Seattle SAFER Streets Act hoped to speed up Vision Zero, slow down drivers

Faced with lagging progress on its 2030 road safety goals, Seattle is launching a new effort to make its streets safer, pairing a powerful mayoral order with new traffic legislation. Mayor Katie Wilson is issuing an Executive Order directing the Seattle Department of Transportation to immediately accelerate priority street safety projects and curb dangerous speeding ahead of the upcoming school year. To be unveiled Friday near an active pedestri…

Wilson expedites safety projects and prioritizes Vision Zero across departments

Mayor Wilson alongside CM Rinck, CM Lin, SDOT staff, and transit advocates after signing Executive Order 2026-05. Outside Cleveland High School on Friday, Mayor Wilson unveiled her Vision Zero Executive Order. This long-awaited executive order re-prioritizes Vision Zero for the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) and for other city agencies. In 2015, Seattle committed to reaching zero serious injuries or fatalities on the city’s roadways…

FOLLOWUP: Mayor orders SW Wildwood bike lane by year's end

(WSB photo, Thursday) Today, Mayor Katie Wilson signed an executive order she said was designed to speed up Vision Zero safety measures – one day after District 1 Councilmember Rob Saka held a committee briefing on his own package of transportation-safety proposals. We haven’t yet read both to see what’s different and what dovetails. But we did notice that the mayor’s order (read it here) refers very specifically to one West Seattle project: It …

Wilson Order Tees Up Sweeping Traffic Safety Changes, Accelerating Projects

The five-part order directs changes across multiple City departments intended to improve safety outcomes. Most notably, SDOT will speed up work on a slate of Vision Zero projects, and start to include intersection daylighting in routine work moving forward.

Seattle Mayor Wilson Orders Permitting Overhaul, Launches Housing Task Force Amid Building Slowdown

Mayor Katie Wilson’s Executive Order 2026-4 directs city departments to speed up permitting and creates a 12-month task force of developers, labor and affordable housing advocates, arriving as fee hikes and stalled applications have slowed Seattle’s housing pipeline to its weakest pace in years. Seattle’s mayor is betting that faster permits, rather than new subsidy dollars, can do the most to unstick a housing pipeline that has slowed sharply o…