Shift Towns · Massachusetts
Walking, biking & transit in Auburn
See the routes Auburn 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 Auburn. New street projects, meetings worth your voice, and how Auburn is moving. One or two emails a month.
Get involved in Auburn
Safer streets are made by neighbors who speak up. Start small:
MassDOT Districts 2 and 3 – vulnerable road user crosswalk installation at state signals - multiple locations
MassDOT is holding a virtual hearing on plans to add crosswalks at state traffic signals in Westfield, Auburn, and nearby towns, which could make crossing these intersections safer for people walking.
Attend the virtual hearing→In Auburn
Meetings & comment pathways
- Auburn Agenda Center — Find posted agendas and minutes for Auburn's boards and committees to see upcoming topics and past decisions.
- Auburn Meeting Calendar — A calendar listing dates, times and locations of upcoming town board and committee meetings, including Department of Public Works meetings.
Your transportation department
- Auburn Department of Public Works — The town department that maintains Auburn's streets, sidewalks, bridges, drainage and snow removal, and the office to contact about road conditions.
Report an issue
- Auburn Town Form Center — The town's full list of online request forms, including streetlight outages and other public works reports, in one place.
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 Auburn
A few picks over the next 30 days — the full calendar has everything.
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- neighbors active so far in November
Auburn 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 November 1 through today, based on trips logged by Shift community members that start or end in Auburn— 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 Auburn by week ending, last 5 completed weeks.
Friendly competition
Massachusetts towns by shift rate so far in November, the share of trips taken actively. Every town here has its own page: local stats, popular routes, events, and ways to get involved.
How Auburn moves
Trips and miles neighbors logged so far in November, by mode.
Share of trips
Share of miles
- Driving
- 1 trips · 41.2 mi
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 Auburn's totals on this page, earns you rewards at local businesses, and enters you into seasonal prize drawings.
Put Auburn on the board.
Every walk, ride, and transit trip counts automatically. Download Shift free and put your trips on Auburn's board.
Community stats reflect trips by Shift community members that start or end in Auburn 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.