Shift Towns · Massachusetts

Walking, biking & transit in Danvers

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

Get involved in Danvers

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

In Danvers

City committees you can join

Danvers Rail Trail Advisory Committee — An official town committee that advises on the Danvers Rail Trail, the shared walking and biking path that runs across town.

Advocacy groups

Friends of the Danvers Rail Trail — A local nonprofit that partners with the town to maintain, extend and raise money for the Danvers Rail Trail, and that welcomes volunteers and members.

Your transportation department

Danvers Public Works – Streets Division — The town division that maintains Danvers' roughly 120 miles of roads plus curbing, sidewalks and drainage, and handles winter snow and ice clearing.

Report an issue

SeeClickFix – Danvers — A web and phone app where residents drop a pin on a map to report non-emergency neighborhood issues in Danvers and follow whether they get fixed.

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

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

Marblehead Rail Trail

bike · 5.5 mi · ~39 min · Marblehead · Swampscott

Two historic seaports, tide pools, and a thousand years of stories

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active trips so far in September: 0.3
active miles: 0
lbs CO₂ avoided*: 2
neighbors active so far in September

Danvers 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 Danvers— 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 Danvers by week ending, last 5 completed weeks, and climbing.

Aug 23Aug 30Sep 6Sep 13Sep 20

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.

How Danvers moves

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

Share of trips

100%

Share of miles

100%

Walking: 2 trips · 0.3 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 Danvers's totals on this page, earns you rewards at local businesses, and enters you into seasonal prize drawings.

Put Danvers on the board.

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

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