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.
Yesterday morning Mayor Jenny Durkan announced she had hired retired Air Force Major General Michael Worden to a newly created position--Director of Citywide Mobility Operations Coordination--at a salary of $195,000. After his 30-year military career, Worden worked as a defense contractor for Lockheed Martin for six years until switching...
I'm proud of the work our team of volunteer writers produced in 2018. We covered Seattle urbanism and politics with nuance and depth, offering commentaries, interviews, and policy deep dives. On occasion we delivered biting critiques when the Seattle Times Editorial Board really went overboard, such as when they...
As 2018 draws to an end, it's the time for reflection and last ditch efforts to get you to read some of fine volunteer journalism this year. 2018 was a year of setbacks, but also of groundwork laid.
It was Mayor Jenny Durkan first full year in office. Spoiler...
India's capital of Delhi is a booming metropolis of 25 million people known for its heavy pollution and congested, chaotic streets. However, in the last few decades, the city began rapidly implementing a rail transit network and soon its citizens had a low-cost, low-pollution transportation option. And the option...
Sound Transit officially secured its long-pledged $1.17 billion grant and $658 million loan from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) for the Lynnwood Link extension.
Executing the loan paperwork clears the way for the project to move forward and make its revised 2024 opening date, with $200 million immediately available...
UpZones Podcast is a weekly podcast featuring stories from people building a richer, more cosmopolitan new Seattle. Ian Martinez, a former journalist and Obama Administration adviser, brings his unique conversational manner to long-form interviews with community leaders in the arts, politics and activism, business, and general civic life.
Martinez has...
While the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) has a "New Mobility Playbook" touting trendy transportation options, it doesn't have a e-scooter program. We got a hint at why in Mayor Jenny Durkan's comments at Civic Cocktail last week.
"No helmet, no experience; it goes 18 miles per hour," Durkan said....
It's been a busy week for candidates jumping in the 2019 Seattle City Council race. The seven district-based council seats will be up, and some of them will be open seats (the two at-large seats aren't up until 2021). In District 4, Rob Johnson announced earlier this month he...