Shift Towns · Massachusetts

Walking, biking & transit in Newburyport

See the routes Newburyport 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 Newburyport. New street projects, meetings worth your voice, and how Newburyport is moving. One or two emails a month.

Get involved in Newburyport

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

In Newburyport

Your transportation department

  • Newburyport Department of Public Services — The city department that maintains Newburyport's streets, sidewalks, drainage, and water and sewer systems, and the office to contact about road repairs or paving work.
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: John Phelan / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)

Clipper City Rail Trail

Starts 1 mi from central Newburyport · Bike · 4.6 mi route · 35 min · Newburyport

A flat, paved loop from the Newburyport train station to the Merrimack River and back

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Trails in and near Newburyport

Paths of their own for walking and biking, with where to get on.

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#12 of 14
Massachusetts towns by shift rate in November
18
active trips so far in November
32.9
active miles
29
lbs CO₂ avoided*
2
neighbors active so far in November

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

Oct 4Oct 11Oct 18Oct 25Nov 1

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. Newburyport is 50 points behind #1.

  1. 1Waltham95%
  2. 2Boston92%
  3. 3Somerville92%
  4. 4Cambridge91%
  5. 5Everett89%
  6. 6Malden88%
  7. 7Medford88%
  8. 8Brookline87%
  9. 9Quincy79%
  10. 10Newton78%
  11. 11Arlington60%
  12. 12Newburyport45%
  13. 13Watertown35%
  14. 14Lexington24%

How Newburyport moves

Trips and miles neighbors logged so far in November, by mode.

Share of trips

13%
33%
55%

Share of miles

8%
90%
Walking
5 trips · 4 mi
Biking & scooting
13 trips · 28.9 mi
Driving
22 trips · 312.4 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 Newburyport's totals on this page. Shift counts trips on its own.

Help Newburyport climb the board.

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

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