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.
Sunday was World Day of Remembrance of Traffic Crash Victims and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) paid her respects with a tweet. "Traffic violence kills...
Route 44 heads through downtown Ballard on Market Street on a fall evening. (Photo by Doug Trumm))
Route 44 is a workhorse, but it's far from a racehorse. 9,300 daily riders pack themselves into the lumbering beast of burden and suffer...
An Amazon contract employee who opposed Amazon's copious campaign spending talks to a reporter. before an October 24th rally at the Amazon Spheres. (Photo by author)
With only about 400 ballots left to tally across King County, election results have solidified, and six of seven candidates we endorsed along with a...
The Move All Seattle Sustainably (MASS) coalition is fighting to stop the I-976 cuts. (Seattle Subway)
Today, Seattle Subway launched a campaign to pressure state legislators to fund transit and undo the damage that Tim Eyman did by passing “$30...
I-5 through Northgate section of Seattle. Northgate Station rises on the right.(Photo by Doug Trumm)
The four-billion-dollar-and-counting SR-99 tunnel was supposed to relieve congestion. It's been open nine months, but people getting around on Seattle streets and highways probably...
In November we are excited to be joined by Sam Zimbabwe, the Director of the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) at our meetup Tuesday...
The entrance portal to the new SR-99 tunnel was filled with pedestrians during a special event before the grand opening.
Motorists have been able to use the new four-billion-dollar SR-99 Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement tunnel for free since it opened February 4th. That will...
Update: Councilmember Kshama Sawant pulled ahead in Friday returns and is now leading by 3.6 points. She will be reelected. November 13th Update: Sawant now...