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Covering the movement to end car dependency and improve biking, walking and transit in America.

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Lucia Cappella is a Los Angeles-based writer, advocate, and current Outreach Coordinator for the Festival Trail. She is passionate about expanding access to arts programming, public transportation, and urban nature — seeing these spaces as vital to creating more connected, empathetic, and resilient communities.

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Talia Goddard is an undergraduate student at Occidental College double-majoring in Urban &amp; Environmental Policy and Economics. She interned with the Festival Trail during the summer of 2025. As a Los Angeles native, Talia was drawn to the project’s commitment to creating a positive Olympic legacy for the city. Her studies currently center on global climate policy, sustainable cities, and urban history through art. Outside the classroom, she works as a photographer and enjoys highlighting community stories and urban landscapes.

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An Olympian Task: Replicating Paris’s Bike Boom in Los Angeles

Public Rail Now is a grassroots campaign advocating for public ownership, democratic accountability, and re-regulation of the U.S. rail system to ensure safe, reliable, and affordable freight and passenger service for all.  Learn more at <a href="http://publicrailnow.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://publicrailnow.org&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1761332786632000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3jAz78QiNQK6vv6b0MlluH">publicrailnow.org.</a>

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Cathy Chase is President of Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, an alliance of consumer, public health, law enforcement and safety organizations and major property-casualty insurance companies and trade associations. Chase has over 25 years of experience in public policy, law and advocacy across the nonprofit and government sectors. Before joining Advocates in 1996, she held roles at Sasha Bruce Youthwork, Street Law, and in the New Jersey State Assembly, among others. Chase holds a Juris Doctor from The George Washington University Law School and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rutgers College.

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Nolan Hicks covered transportation, housing, public health and city agencies in the City Hall bureau for The New York Post from 2018-2024, most recently as the paper’s Senior Reporter for City Affairs. He previously worked as a City Hall and general assignments at The Austin American-Statesman from 2016-2018, where he uncovered self-dealing by a top aide to the city’s then-mayor that resulted in a federal investigation and guilty pleas. Before that, he was a reporter at the New York Daily News and the San Antonio Express-News. He joined Streetsblog in January 2025.

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