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.
As we bid 2019 adieu and enter a new decade, it's hard not to get wistful and ponder the past decade in the rearview...
Map shows a high speed rail mainline from Vancouver, BC to Eugene, Oregon. Also shows secondary lines serving Spokane, the Tri-Cities, and Yakima in Easter Washington.
Happy holidays from The Urbanist. In honor of the holiday, here's an Urbanist wishlist set to 12 Days of Christmas. Let's build this future...
Second Avenue in Downtown Seattle. (Photo by author)
Seattle's remarkable run of transit ridership growth appears to finally have hit a speed bump. King County Metro's ridership grew at its slowest pace...
A bikeshare pile up where bikes accumulated outside the Sounder Station in Pioneer Square. (Photo by Doug Trumm)
Update: Despite earlier denials, Lime announced December 24th that it was closing down its bikeshare in Seattle and pulling all its bikes by December...
Angle Lake is the current southern terminus of Link, but the Federal Way Link Extension will add three stations to the south. (Sound Transit)
Under Secretary Elaine Chao, the United States Department of Transportation has been known for slow-walking or canceling transit grants, putting transit projects across the...
A snarl of car traffic on 4th Avenue with transit and people biking on the margins. (Photo by Scott Bonjukian)
What will it take to make congestion pricing a reality in Seattle? Depending on whom you ask, road pricing is either just around the corner,...
Ride2 vans were re-purposed from Metro's fleet and may go back to other services. Some include wheelchair ramps as shown. (King County Metro)
King County Metro has been dabbling in on-demand shuttle services to entice riders to transit centers, but some of those pilot projects are floundering....
Africatown Plaza will anchor a corner of the Midtown Center redevelopment. (Credit: Africatown CLT)
Mayor Jenny Durkan revealed the slate of affordable housing projects the City would be funding next year to the record-breaking tune of $110 million...