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Joshua Ekstedt

Josh has a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and master’s degrees in Transportation Engineering and City Planning from the University of California, Berkeley. Josh brings experience in bicycle and pedestrian facility design, roadway design and modeling, complete street design, drainage design, road safety audits, traffic analysis, and crash analysis. Josh’s 7 years of experience include work in both the private and public sectors. Josh is passionate about designing transportation systems that prioritize non-motorized modes of travel in order to improve safety and accessibility for everyone.

“I want us to build cities that are designed for people, not cars. Our dependence on the automobile is a danger to us environmentally, socially, and economically. We should be building cities where people of all abilities can safely and easily access their desired destinations—cities where accessibility is not determined by the availability of a car. I think we can build a kinder, more efficient world for us to live in by deprioritizing the automobile.”