Shift Towns · Massachusetts

Walking, biking & transit in Lowell

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

Get involved in Lowell

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

In Lowell

Construction & closures

  • Lowell Traffic & Transportation — The city page covering traffic, parking, and street projects, including detours and road closures that affect getting around on foot or by bike.

Meetings & comment pathways

  • Lowell Agenda Center — The city's posting place for City Council and board meeting agendas, packets, and minutes, including the dates when public comment is taken.

Your transportation department

  • Lowell Department of Public Works — The city department that maintains Lowell's streets, sidewalks, signs, and snow removal, and is who you contact about road 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.
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active trips so far in September
70.2
active miles
63
lbs CO₂ avoided*
4
neighbors active so far in September

Lowell 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 Lowell— 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 Lowell 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.

  1. 1Cambridge90%
  2. 2Somerville88%
  3. 3Boston87%
  4. 4Medford83%
  5. 5Revere81%
  6. 6Salem81%
  7. 7Brookline80%
  8. 8Malden79%
  9. 9Everett74%
  10. 10Newton66%
  11. 11Milton65%
  12. 12Arlington62%
  13. 13Waltham62%
  14. 14Watertown60%
  15. 15Winchester59%
  16. 16Lynn56%
  17. 17Dedham55%
  18. 18Stoneham54%
  19. 19Bedford50%
  20. 20Newburyport44%
  21. 21Quincy33%
  22. 22Framingham31%
  23. 23Weston29%
  24. 24Burlington26%
  25. 25Saugus19%

How Lowell moves

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

Share of trips

86%
14%

Share of miles

63%
37%
Biking & scooting
6 trips · 44.5 mi
Train
1 trips · 25.7 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 Lowell's totals on this page, earns you rewards at local businesses, and enters you into seasonal prize drawings.

Put Lowell on the board.

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

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