Doug Trumm
Doug Trumm is publisher of The Urbanist. An Urbanist writer since 2015, he dreams of pedestrian streets, bus lanes, and a mass-timber building spree to end our housing crisis. He graduated from the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington in 2019. He lives in Seattle's Fremont neighborhood and loves to explore the city by foot and by bike.
After the megalopolises of New York and Mexico City, the next highest ridership Metro system in North America may surprise you. It's not Chicago...
Housing For All Action at City Hall - On Wednesday, Housing For All is organizing a letter delivery at the Seattle City Council's 2pm...
In adjourning the 65th legislative session, Washington state legislators left Sound Transit 3 (ST3) funding fully intact. Transit supporters breathed sigh of relief. Pressure...
When the One Center City Advisory Board delivered its recommendation last September, we applauded the gains for transit priority and the Downtown Basic Bike Network. Five...
Last week, the Washington State House came through with $900,000 to partially fund a business case study of high-speed rail connecting Vancouver, Seattle, and...
Ten urban villages' boundaries are expanding in the latest batch of Housing Affordability and Livability Agenda (HALA) rezones, but by the city's own logic...
Council Chambers were packed Tuesday evening as housing advocates rallied for solutions to Seattle's affordability crisis. The "Housing Gap" meeting called by Councilmember Teresa...
On Monday, a new advocacy organization called Cascadia Rail announced itself to the world, piquing interest with their spiffy map by maestro cartographer Oran...