Shift Towns · Massachusetts

Walking, biking & transit in Reading

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

Get involved in Reading

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

In Reading

Construction & closures

Your transportation department

  • Reading Department of Public Works — The town department that maintains Reading's streets, sidewalks, signs, and snow removal, and the office to contact about road conditions.
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.

Events near Reading

A few picks over the next 30 days — the full calendar has everything.

All community events →

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 by Alex Jones on Unsplash

Somerville Community Path

Starts 8.8 mi from central Reading · Bike · 4.3 mi route · 29 min · Somerville · Cambridge

Davis Square to Lovejoy Wharf, end-to-end on the new Somerville extension.

Photo: John Phelan / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)

Minuteman Bikeway

Starts 9 mi from central Reading · Bike · 6.4 mi route · 42 min · Cambridge · Arlington · Bedford

Follow the road the British marched in 1775, Alewife to Lexington Center.

Photo: Karl Alexander

Mystic River Greenway (Alewife to Medford)

Starts 9 mi from central Reading · Bike · 6.7 mi route · 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 October

Reading 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 October 1 through today, based on trips logged by Shift community members that start or end in Reading— 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).

Friendly competition

Massachusetts towns by shift rate so far in October, the share of trips taken actively. Every town here has its own page: local stats, popular routes, events, and ways to get involved.

  1. 1Cambridge94%
  2. 2Somerville94%
  3. 3Everett91%
  4. 4Boston91%
  5. 5Salem87%
  6. 6Malden86%
  7. 7Brookline85%
  8. 8Medford83%
  9. 9Revere81%
  10. 10Watertown77%
  11. 11Melrose73%
  12. 12Arlington70%
  13. 13Newton68%
  14. 14Stoneham66%
  15. 15Saugus61%
  16. 16Westborough54%
  17. 17Waltham46%
  18. 18Wakefield42%
  19. 19Quincy42%
  20. 20Lexington31%
  21. 21Newburyport29%
  22. 22Natick25%
  23. 23Peabody25%
  24. 24Framingham11%
  25. 25Danvers5%

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 Reading's totals on this page, earns you rewards at local businesses, and enters you into seasonal prize drawings.

Put Reading on the board.

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

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