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.
Sound Transit has some big decisions on the horizon regarding light rail alignments for Ballard Link and West Seattle Link. Having just released Initial Assessment results, the agency is inviting people to submit comments as the final alternatives to be studied in the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) are narrowed...
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 build-up happening in each neighborhood in a series starting with Northgate and then working our way back to the University District.
With trip times to Downtown...
Sound Transit stepped in it on the first day of school last week.
Despite widely cheered plans to provide free transit passes to high school students at Seattle Public Schools, Sound Transit turned an opportunity to build goodwill and welcome a new generation of transit riders into a public relations...
After the Primary Election, 14 candidates remain for seven Seattle City Council contests. The race has shaped up to be a showdown between Seattle Times-endorsed candidates and those backed by The Stranger. Final Primary results didn't include any reversals from the early Seattle City Council returns we reported on...
Alex Pedersen won 40% of the primary vote in Seattle's Fourth Council District, but some of his views are very out of step with the electorate. He has taken steps to conceal some of those issues. For example, Pedersen opposed the Move Seattle transportation levy in 2015 and the...
Yesterday, Capitol Hill Seattle Blog broke the story that Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda has a spot in mind to introduce 'superilles'--or pedestrian superblocks modeled off Barcelona's--to Seattle. Her proposed location buttresses Pike Street for three blocks east of Broadway and mirrors where the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) conducted a...
Light rail on Aurora Avenue just seems like a great idea, and Seattle Subway has the pictures to prove it. Today, the all-volunteer-run organization released those images with a press release that continued to promote their idea to run another transit measure in 2024 to build upon Sound Transit...
Seattle has too many urban highways, but it could have had so many more if state leaders had realized all their dreams of highway expansion--including four cross-sound toll bridges. In 1965, the Washington Toll Bridge Authority floated the plan to cross Puget Sound with floating bridges connecting Seattle to...