Shift Towns · Massachusetts

Walking, biking & transit in Billerica

See the routes Billerica 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 Billerica. New street projects, meetings worth your voice, and how Billerica is moving. One or two emails a month.

Get involved in Billerica

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

In Billerica

City committees you can join

  • Yankee Doodle Bike Path Committee — A town committee created by Town Meeting in 2013 that plans and advances Billerica's multi-use bike path and reports on its progress.

Advocacy groups

  • Friends of the Billerica Bike Path — A volunteer group of Billerica residents that campaigns for the proposed multi-use trail through town and shares updates on where the project stands.

Construction & closures

Your transportation department

  • Billerica Department of Public Works — The town department that repairs, plows, and sweeps Billerica's streets and sidewalks and runs the engineering and infrastructure projects that change how people get around.
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.

Roams to try

Self-guided routes. Preview the full route here, then check in at each stop in the Shift app to unlock the badge.

Photo: Seasider53 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Battle Road Trail

Starts 7.6 mi from central Billerica · Walk · 6 mi route · 2 hr · Lexington · Concord

Walk the path of the American Revolution, from Lexington to Concord

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neighbors active so far in November

Billerica 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 Billerica— 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 Billerica by week ending, last 5 completed weeks.

Oct 4Oct 11Oct 18Oct 25Nov 1

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.

  1. 1Waltham96%
  2. 2Boston93%
  3. 3Somerville92%
  4. 4Everett90%
  5. 5Cambridge90%
  6. 6Medford87%
  7. 7Brookline86%
  8. 8Malden84%
  9. 9Arlington72%
  10. 10Newburyport35%

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 Billerica's totals on this page, earns you rewards at local businesses, and enters you into seasonal prize drawings.

Put Billerica on the board.

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

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Community stats reflect trips by Shift community members that start or end in Billerica 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.