Merrimack Valley Regional Transportation Authority

Noah Berger is the Administrator and CEO of the Merrimack Valley Regional Transit Authority (MVRTA), which is the local transit provider serving sixteen cities and towns across the Merrimack Valley, including Andover. MVRTA carries over two million riders per year on its family of local and intercity bus routes, commuter routes, employment routes, demand-response van runs, and even a seasonal beach run! Since his appointment to the position by the MVRTA Board in July of 2021, Noah has been riding the buses and reaching out to key stakeholders, of which the Andover Rotary Club is of course the most important example! MVRTA is currently embarking on several exciting initiatives to increase access and opportunity across the region, including going-fare free this coming March, adding bus stops, rebranding the look and feel of its vehicles and spaces, optimizing routes, and introducing dynamic scheduling to its van service.

Noah is an almost thirty-year veteran of public transportation. He has previously held leadership positions with the Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority, Connecticut Transit, the Greater Hartford Transit District, the Federal Transit Administration, the Boston Foundation, the MBTA Advisory Board, Cambridge Systematics, the Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity, as well as Boston’s Parker Shelter, Vermont Congressman Bernie Sanders, and the New York Yankees. He is an exhibited oil painter, and has served on the boards for ARTmorpheus in Boston and the New Art Center in Newton, MA. He is the author of By Bus, Bike or Boat: A Rider’s Guide to Public Transit in Greater Burlington and Vermont, and “The Guardian of the Birds” in John Abarno’s The Ethics of Homelessness: Philosophical Perspectives, and has Master’s Degrees in City Planning from M.I.T., and Philosophy from the State University of New York.