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:
- Report a street problemBillerica 311→
- Find a meeting agendaBillerica Agenda Center→
- Sign up for town alertsBillerica Notify Me / Alert Center→
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
- Billerica Traffic & Construction News Flash — The town's running list of road construction notices, lane and road closures, and detours, such as the Boston Road reconstruction and bike path work.
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.
Events near Billerica
A few picks over the next 30 days — the full calendar has everything.
All community events →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.
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Trails in and near Billerica
Paths of their own for walking and biking, with where to get on.
- 1
- active trips so far in November
- 25.4
- active miles
- 23
- lbs CO₂ avoided*
- 1
- 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.
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 Billerica moves
Trips and miles neighbors logged so far in November, by mode.
Share of trips
Share of miles
- Train
- 1 trips · 25.4 mi
What is this?
Shift is a free app from Green Streets Initiative, a Somerville nonprofit since 2006, for finding better ways to get around. Every walk, bike ride and transit trip people take with Shift adds to Billerica's totals on this page. Shift counts trips on its own.
Put Billerica on the board.
Every walk, ride, and transit trip counts automatically. Download Shift free and put your trips on Billerica's board.
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.