Doug Trumm

Doug Trumm
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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.
A dark light rail platform at SeaTac Airport during a service disruption.
It's looking like an October launch for real-time Link arrivals -- after a hectic month of maintenance-related service disruptions. One lament Link light rail riders...
Seattle's new long-range plan for high capacity transit echoes vision maps created by Seattle Subway and advanced by The Urbanist. Seattle's long-range rail transit vision...
The elevated South Bellevue Station with the Bellevue skyline in the distance.
The Eastside starter line received the go ahead from the Sound Transit Board of Directors on Thursday, which clears the way for the eastern...
Riders have until August 27 to give feedback on the Phase 3 restructure proposal. Lynnwood Link is set to open in fall 2024 and bring...
Othello light rail station. (Credit: Doug Trumm)
Riders are feeling the pain as maintenance work continues to impact Link train frequencies. Last week, Sound Transit managed only 20-minute frequencies during work to...
Light rail is coming to South Lake Union, but the path to get there is certainly fraught and contentious. Mayor Bruce Harrell backed a...
Steel girders painted blue support the elevated rail line in Philly's Fishtown neighborhood.
Transit: Why Don't We Do It in the Road? Transit has been getting some tough breaks lately in the Puget Sound region and across much...
A light rail train in SoDo passes under highway overpasses and enters an intersection.
Reliability issues caused the switch to longer headways for the remainder of the SoDo maintenance project. Sound Transit is the midst of maintenance work in...