Shift Towns · Massachusetts
Walking, biking & transit in Concord
See the routes Concord 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 Concord. New street projects, meetings worth your voice, and how Concord is moving — 1–2 emails a month.
Get involved in Concord
Safer streets are made by neighbors who speak up. Start small:
- Report a street problemTown of Concord "Reporting an Issue" forms→
- Find the next meeting agendaConcord Minutes & Agendas Center→
In Concord
City committees you can join
- Transportation Advisory Committee – Bicycle Sub-Committee — An official town sub-committee of volunteers and staff that reviews bicycling conditions and improvements in Concord and posts its agendas and minutes publicly.
Advocacy groups
- Concord Bikes (via the town's Bike page) — A volunteer community group that promotes everyday biking in Concord, runs the annual Concord Bike Fest, and pushes for safer cycling conditions around town.
Free commuter perks & shuttles
- Concord Transportation options and Council on Aging van — Town page listing local travel options, including the weekday door-to-door van that takes eligible Concord seniors to appointments and errands.
Your transportation department
- Concord Public Works – Highway & Grounds Division — The town division that maintains Concord's roughly 108 miles of public streets, sidewalks, signs, and storm drains.
- Concord Complete Streets Program — The town's effort to build a street network that works for walking, biking, and driving, with information on planned safety and connectivity projects.
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.
Free commuter perks & shuttles
- 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.
Events near Concord
A few picks over the next 30 days — the full calendar has everything.
Roams to try
Guided routes — preview the full route here, then check in at each stop in the Shift app to earn the badge.
Battle Road Trail
walk · 6 mi · ~120 min · Lexington · Concord
Walk the path of the American Revolution, from Lexington to Concord
Mass Central Rail Trail: Sudbury to Hudson
bike · 5.4 mi · ~35 min · Sudbury · Hudson
Rail history, a rare Pine Barrens ecosystem, and a rebuilt truss bridge
Mystic River Greenway (Alewife to Medford)
bike · 6.7 mi · ~41 min · Arlington · Somerville · Medford
Two rivers, two T stations, and 300 years of history between them
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- neighbors active so far in September
Concord 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 Concord— 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 Concord by week ending, last 5 completed weeks.
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.
- 1Cambridge90%
- 2Somerville88%
- 3Boston87%
- 4Medford83%
- 5Revere81%
- 6Salem81%
- 7Brookline80%
- 8Malden79%
- 9Everett74%
- 10Newton66%
- 11Milton65%
- 12Watertown62%
- 13Arlington62%
- 14Waltham62%
- 15Winchester57%
- 16Dedham55%
- 17Lynn55%
- 18Stoneham54%
- 19Bedford50%
- 20Newburyport44%
- 21Quincy35%
- 22Framingham32%
- 23Weston29%
- 24Burlington28%
- 25Saugus20%
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 Concord's totals on this page, earns you rewards at local businesses, and enters you into seasonal prize drawings.
Put Concord on the board.
Every walk, ride, and transit trip counts automatically. Download Shift free and put your trips on Concord's board.
Community stats reflect trips by Shift community members that start or end in Concord 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.