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.
The City of Seattle announced its preferred route for the Burke-Gilman Trail's Missing Link at a Tuesday press conference at the Ballard Locks. Fortunately,...
Legislators in Olympia are in a hurry to push through a flurry of bills before cutoff deadlines would make them dead. One of those...
Monday was quite the ordeal. Around 10am a propane truck got into a collision and rolled over blocking an interchange between I-90 and I-5 near Downtown. Propane being...
During his State of the City speech, Mayor Murray mentioned that 67 people per day moved to Seattle in 2016. If accurate, that would...
A bill working its way through the Washington State Legislature could make it easier to build cross-laminated timber (CLT) buildings in Washington state. State...
New high-rises could be on the way for the University District (U District) for the first time since the 1970's. In a significant unanimous...
A five-year process could finally be coming to fruition Tuesday as the Seattle City Council votes on the University District Rezone and Urban Design Proposal at...
Transitioning Seattle's transit network from streetcars to buses and trolleys was greeted as cutting edge in 1940. It doesn't feel that way now. Regardless, this...