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.
Seattle is joining the list of cities using open streets to help weather the coronavirus pandemic by helping people walking, rolling, and biking safely...
Governor Jay Inslee (Courtesy of Governor's Office)
Washington renters breathed a sigh of relief yesterday as Governor Jay Inslee announced a rent freeze lasting two months. The governor also extended the...
Yesterday, West Seattle got more bad news as the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) announced the West Seattle Bridge would be closed for at...
On April 3rd, Washington's Supreme Court denied a motion to hear Seattle's income tax case enshrining a lower court ruling that struck down a...
Green Lake Park as of Thursday afternoon. (Photo by Doug Trumm)
In a move to combat coronavirus spread, Mayor Jenny Durkan announced yesterday that 15 of Seattle's largest or most popular parks would be closed...
Seattle's design review process has been on a hold for about a month now due distancing measures to contain the COVID-19 outbreak. Today, Mayor...
Route 44 is Seattle's busiest crosstown bus and the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) has a plan to roll out some bus lanes and...
King County Metro's third busiest bus route doesn't have fancy RapidRide branding. You'll often see it (sometimes represented by some of the oldest buses...