The Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority has announced the addition of Noah Berger as deputy administrator for grants, policy & planning. This position is responsible for performing all grants management functions, predominantly related to the Federal Transit Administration and Massachusetts Department of Transportation funded grants. Berger will also be charged with the further advancement of CCRTA policy, planning, innovation, and performance management efforts.
Cape Cod RTA Administrator Tom Cahir stated, “We are pleased to have Noah as part of our CCRTA team and look forward to utilizing his extensive knowledge and experience in an effort to further improve public transportation on Cape Cod. I have known and worked with him for approximately 20 years and have met very few individuals with a more advanced transit/transportation acumen. Our region will certainly benefit with his addition to our team.”
Berger has over twenty-three years experience working in the field of public transportation, spanning the public, private and non-profit sectors. He has held leadership positions with 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, and the New York Yankees. He is recognized across the transit industry as an expert in federal transportation policy, funding and requirements, transit planning, ferryboat transportation, transit maps, the interface between transit and social justice, transit oriented development, human service transportation coordination, placemaking and public art. He is an exhibited oil painter, serving on the boards for ARTmorpheus in Boston and the New Art Center in Newton, MA. He is 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 Masters Degrees in City Planning from M.I.T., and Philosophy from the State University of New York.
