Shift Towns · Massachusetts
Walking, biking & transit in Foxborough
See the routes Foxborough 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.
Going to Gillette? The lots, the event train and rideshare
Keep a pulse on Foxborough. New street projects, meetings worth your voice, and how Foxborough is moving. One or two emails a month.
Get involved in Foxborough
Safer streets are made by neighbors who speak up. Start small:
- Check the next agendaFoxborough Select Board Meeting Agendas→
- Find a commute optionNeponset Valley Transportation Management Association→
In Foxborough
Commuter perks & fare help
- Choose Foxborough — Commuting and Transportation — A town economic development page listing local travel options, including the senior door-to-door van service with its weekday hours and shopping trip schedule.
Meetings & comment pathways
- Foxborough Town Clerk — Open Meeting Law and Public Meeting Calendar — The Town Clerk's page explaining that all town board and committee meeting notices are officially posted on the town's public meeting calendar and at Town Hall.
Your transportation department
- Foxborough Highway Department (DPW) — Transportation System — The town department that maintains Foxborough's roughly 94 miles of roads and 72 miles of sidewalks, including paving, plowing, signs and street repairs.
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 courtesy of MassTrails10 / MassDOTStarts 2.9 mi from central Foxborough · Bike · 3.4 mi route · 22 min · Mansfield · Norton
From a WWII staging ground to protected wetlands and rare cedar swamps
- 2
- active trips so far in November
- 20.7
- active miles
- 18
- lbs CO₂ avoided*
- 1
- neighbors active so far in November
Foxborough 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 Foxborough— 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 Foxborough by week ending, last 5 completed weeks, and climbing.
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 Foxborough moves
Trips and miles neighbors logged so far in November, by mode.
Share of trips
Share of miles
- Walking
- 1 trips · 0.3 mi
- Train
- 1 trips · 20.4 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 Foxborough's totals on this page. Shift counts trips on its own.
Put Foxborough on the board.
Every walk, ride, and transit trip counts automatically. Download Shift free and put your trips on Foxborough's board.
Community stats reflect trips by Shift community members that start or end in Foxborough 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.