Shift Towns · Massachusetts

Walking, biking & transit in Braintree

See the routes Braintree 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 Braintree. New street projects, meetings worth your voice, and how Braintree is moving — 1–2 emails a month.

Get involved in Braintree

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

In Braintree

Meetings & comment pathways

  • Braintree Agenda Center — The town's central archive of posted agendas and minutes for Braintree boards and council committees, including the Public Works and Ways & Means committees.

Your transportation department

  • Braintree Department of Public Works — The town department responsible for maintaining Braintree's roads, sidewalks, and other public works, and the office to contact about street conditions or repairs.
  • Braintree Engineering Division — The DPW division that designs and reviews Braintree street, sidewalk, and drainage projects and holds the town's road plans and records.
  • Braintree Highway & Grounds Division — The DPW crew that does the actual paving, pothole patching, street sweeping, and snow clearing on Braintree streets, reachable directly by phone for road maintenance questions.

Report an issue

Regional & statewide groups, 5 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.

Events near Braintree

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

All community events →

Roams to try

Guided routes — preview the full route here, then check in at each stop in the Shift app to earn the badge.

Museum Hop

Museum Hop

walk + transit · 3.6 mi · ~180 min · Boston

Emerald Necklace Bike Route

Emerald Necklace Bike Route

bike · 7.3 mi · ~49 min · Boston · Brookline

The Freedom Trail

The Freedom Trail

walk · 3.5 mi · ~70 min · Boston

All roams →
4
active trips so far in September
39.7
active miles
35
lbs CO₂ avoided*
1
neighbors active so far in September

Braintree 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 September 1 through today, based on trips logged by Shift community members that start or end in Braintree— 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 Braintree by week ending, last 5 completed weeks.

Aug 16Aug 23Aug 30Sep 6Sep 13

Friendly competition

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

  1. 1Cambridge91%
  2. 2Somerville89%
  3. 3Boston87%
  4. 4Brookline84%
  5. 5Medford82%
  6. 6Everett81%
  7. 7Malden81%
  8. 8Revere80%
  9. 9Salem80%
  10. 10Waltham75%
  11. 11Watertown62%
  12. 12Newton61%
  13. 13Arlington61%
  14. 14Stoneham60%
  15. 15Winchester58%
  16. 16Dedham58%
  17. 17Newburyport48%
  18. 18Lynn41%
  19. 19Quincy38%
  20. 20Burlington29%
  21. 21Weston29%
  22. 22Framingham26%
  23. 23Saugus17%

How Braintree moves

Active trips and miles so far in September, by mode.

Share of trips

25%
25%
50%

Share of miles

26%
17%
57%
Biking & scooting
1 trips · 10.3 mi
Bus
1 trips · 6.9 mi
Train
2 trips · 22.6 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 Braintree's totals on this page, earns you rewards at local businesses, and enters you into seasonal prize drawings.

Put Braintree on the board.

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