Shift Towns · Massachusetts

Walking, biking & transit in Agawam

See the routes Agawam neighbors actually walk, ride and take transit on, what's happening locally, and how the town is trending — built from real trips logged in the Shift app.

Keep a pulse on Agawam. New street projects, meetings worth your voice, and how Agawam is moving. One or two emails a month.

Get involved in Agawam

Safer streets are made by neighbors who speak up. Start small:

In Agawam

Construction & closures

  • Agawam Current Projects — The town's running list of active road, sidewalk and infrastructure projects, including where work is underway and how to comment on planned changes.

Get updates

  • Agawam "Sign Up For..." page — A single page listing the town's notification and recreation signups, useful if you are not sure which Agawam list you want to join.

Meetings & comment pathways

  • Agawam Agenda Center — The town's central posting place for agendas and minutes of the City Council and every Agawam board and commission.
  • Agawam City Council — Agawam's elected council, which votes on street, sidewalk and budget matters; residents may speak at meetings but must sign up before the meeting starts.

Your transportation department

  • Agawam Department of Public Works — The town department that maintains Agawam's streets, sidewalks, drainage and snow removal, with contact numbers and current DPW updates posted on its page.
Regional & statewide groups, 7 more

Advocacy groups

  • LivableStreets Allianceregional — The Metro Boston advocacy group for people-centered streets and transit, whose research and comment letters cover projects across the region.
  • TransitMattersstatewide — The transit advocacy group pushing for faster, more reliable buses and trains across Greater Boston, with data-driven campaigns anyone can join.
  • Transportation for Massachusetts (T4MA)statewide — A statewide coalition of community groups advocating for safe, affordable, and reliable transportation choices in every corner of the state.
  • WalkMassachusettsstatewide — The statewide walking advocacy organization that leads walk audits and pedestrian-safety campaigns, with open network meetings on Zoom the third Wednesday of each month.
  • MassBikestatewide — The statewide bicycling coalition — a way to plug into bike advocacy, group rides, and Bike Month events across Greater Boston and beyond.

Commuter perks & fare help

  • MBTA reduced faresstatewide — Reduced-fare programs for seniors, riders with disabilities, people aged 18–25 on low incomes, and middle and high school students. Most cut the fare roughly in half.

Get updates

  • MBTA accessibility alertsstatewide — Live notices when an elevator or escalator is out of service, plus how to arrange a shuttle when one is. Worth subscribing to if a lift is part of how you get to the platform.

Events near Agawam

A few picks over the next 30 days — the full calendar has everything.

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active trips so far in October
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neighbors active so far in October

Agawam joins the Massachusetts board once it logs 20+ trips in a month. Shift Rate is the share of trips taken actively (walk, micromobility, transit). Counts cover October 1 through today, based on trips logged by Shift community members that start or end in Agawam— a growing sample, meant as an interesting local signal, not an official or census-level count. *CO₂ avoided is estimated from active miles traveled (EPA 404 g/mi baseline).

Momentum

Active trips in Agawam by week ending, last 5 completed weeks.

Sep 20Sep 27Oct 4Oct 11Oct 18

Friendly competition

Massachusetts towns by shift rate so far in October, the share of trips taken actively. Every town here has its own page: local stats, popular routes, events, and ways to get involved.

  1. 1Somerville94%
  2. 2Cambridge93%
  3. 3Boston92%
  4. 4Medford90%
  5. 5Salem88%
  6. 6Malden87%
  7. 7Brookline85%
  8. 8Melrose81%
  9. 9Everett78%
  10. 10Revere78%
  11. 11Watertown74%
  12. 12Arlington70%
  13. 13Saugus65%
  14. 14Newton63%
  15. 15Stoneham54%
  16. 16Westborough52%
  17. 17Waltham45%
  18. 18Milton44%
  19. 19Quincy41%
  20. 20Dedham41%
  21. 21Lynnfield38%
  22. 22Lexington36%
  23. 23Chelsea32%
  24. 24Bedford29%
  25. 25Newburyport29%
  26. 26Winchester28%
  27. 27Peabody20%
  28. 28Framingham15%

What is this?

Shift is a free app from Green Streets Initiative, a nonprofit that has celebrated walking, biking, and transit since 2006. Shift automatically counts your walks, rides, and transit trips — every trip adds to Agawam's totals on this page, earns you rewards at local businesses, and enters you into seasonal prize drawings.

Put Agawam on the board.

Every walk, ride, and transit trip counts automatically. Download Shift free and put your trips on Agawam's board.

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Community stats reflect trips by Shift community members that start or end in Agawam and refresh hourly. Municipalities and community groups can request aggregate data at info@gogreenstreets.org. A project of Green Streets Initiative, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.