MVX | Mountain Valley Express

About

Mountain Valley Express is a nonprofit Research and Advocacy organization dedicated to bringing world-class regional rail to the South Coast of BC.

Board of Directors

Bert Chen

Infrastructure Developer

Bert is a professional developer of infrastructure and renewable energy projects with Canadian and global experience. He specializes in project finance and permitting/regulatory approval. Bert has an MBA in Finance and is a certified Project Management Professional that he wants to bring to MVX to make high-speed passenger rail a reality on the South Coast.

Alex Gaio

PhD Candidate

Alex is a PhD candidate researching the future of urban mobility. He is an advocate for transportation choice and is interested in how urban planning can address challenges related to transportation, sustainability, and public health. He has worked on Calgary’s Green Line LRT, Auckland’s new transport network, and in a consultant capacity in Canada, Sweden, and the Netherlands.

Lee Haber

Mobility Planner/Engineer

Lee Haber is a transportation planner and engineer for TYLin and is the Technical Lead for MVX. Lee has extensive engagement with transportation issues in the region. For his Master’s thesis, Lee studied how full-user-pay road pricing would affect users of different modes of transportation financially within Metro Vancouver. He also served as Campaign Director for GetOnBoardBC, an organization advocating for better transit in 2014.

Ashley McDougall

Transportation Advocate

Ashley McDougall is in her final year of a Bachelor of Economics at the University of the Fraser Valley (UFV). With a strong background in transportation advocacy, she currently serves on the UFV Board of Governors and previously held the role of President at the UFV Student Union Society. During her tenure in student leadership, Ashley championed initiatives for improved and more accessible transportation within the Fraser Valley region.

Strategic Advisory Council

In addition to our governance board, MVX retains the expert advice and counsel of a Strategic Advisory Council.

About the Society

MVX is a member- and donor-funded nonprofit society. The Society exists to conduct research and advocacy on public transit/transportation in the Lower Mainland.

Our Bylaws

The bylaws that govern the organisation and outline our principles.

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The Mountain Valley Express Collective Society wishes to respectfully acknowledge the unceded territory of the South Coast. These lands include (but are not limited to) the Squamish, Tsleil Waututh, Musqueam, Stó:lō, Tsawwassen, Lil’wat, Kwantlen, and Semiahmoo First Nations. We further wish to acknowledge the unfair treatment that the constitution affords to rail and the way it dispossessed many nations’ lands and starved indigenous peoples. As a society, we solemnly reflect and strive to better understand the atrocities of Canada’s railway legacy. In the spirit of reconciliation, we hope that MVX Nexus can serve as a platform for reframing rail as a tool for Nations to harness their economic development potential while building an equitable and sustainable future for connecting all South Coast Nations and all people that call the South Coast home.