Doug Trumm
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.
Last week it seemed like the Seattle City Council might approve the Seattle Police Department's North Precinct design and fund the $149 million project today. However, ahead of the 2:00pm full council meeting (which you can watch here), councilmember Lorena González released a reworded resolution that punts on final...
Relative to other medium-sized American cities, Seattle has a good bus network. What it doesn't have is a true bus rapid transit (BRT) line. The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) wants to change that with "Madison Bus Rapid Transit," as it has labeled a new project in a corridor...
The controversial, expensive, and seemingly rushed-through North Seattle police precinct is now headed for a vote of the full City Council on Monday, which is currently down its most vocal member, with Kshama Sawant out of the country.
At Wednesday's meeting of the Gender Equity, Safe Communities, and New Americans...
The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) announced its final plan to makeover a three block section of N 34th St in Fremont. The plan is a hodgepodge of protected bike lanes (good), preserved angle parking (bad), and an oversized 15-foot-wide travel lane (very bad). SDOT expects to complete the...
The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) revealed on Saturday its preliminary timeline for rolling out the seven RapidRide+ lines promised in the Move Seattle transportation levy. Madison and Delridge come first in 2019, whereas the 23rd Ave E upgrade isn't slated until 2024. Seeing the timelines makes the bus...
Urban Geometry: Human Transit's Jarrett Walker argued that the transportation vision billionaire Elon Musk laid out failed to account for the basic geometry of urban roads, i.e. you can't fit that many cars on them even if they are driverless. This one's really been making the rounds so read...
Today Councilmember Kshama Sawant announced legislation that could provide renters with a much needed defense against initial price gouging when moving apartments.
The bill proposes to cap the combined total of security deposit and non-refundable move-in fees at the equivalent of one month's rent. It prohibits the total amount of...
Washington Department of Transportation (WSDOT) announced last week that the Burke-Gilman Trail would be closed in Fremont until November, but recanted this week after a bit of backlash. The reason for the closure was that WSDOT wanted a storage space to stage cleaning and painting equipment for the George...