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.
Wide Support for High-Speed Rail at Cascadia Conference, Plus Skeptic Transpo Chair DeFazio
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Yesterday, Challenge Seattle hosted a conference that demonstrated widespread support for high-speed rail among political and business leaders in Cascadia. And then there was...
The Northgate Link Extension will open in 2021, but the neighborhoods around the stations are already transforming. We're taking a closer look at the...
The long-awaited two-way transit corridor on Columbia Street is coming this winter. On Thursday, the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) announced that the project...
First of all, we in the publication team would like to thank our readers to continue to support our work.
More people than ever are...
The Roosevelt neighborhood has the makings of a huge transit-oriented development success story. A building boom is underway, protected bike lanes have recently gone...
Mayor Durkan Unveils Plan to Boost Ridehailing Fee to 75 Cents to Fund Streetcar, Affordable Housing
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Yesterday Mayor Jenny Durkan revealed her plan to increase Seattle's ridehailing fee by 51 cents per ride and direct the first five years of...
Sound Transit has some big decisions on the horizon regarding light rail alignments for Ballard Link and West Seattle Link. Having just released Initial...
Northgate Link will arrive in 2021, but the neighborhoods around the stations are already transforming. We're going to take a closer look at the...