Shift Towns · Massachusetts

Walking, biking & transit in Saugus

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

Get involved in Saugus

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

In Saugus

Advocacy groups

  • Bike to the Sea — A volunteer group that has pushed since 1993 to build and extend the Northern Strand Community Trail through Saugus and neighboring towns, and that runs rides, cleanups, and advocacy for safer local biking.

Your transportation department

  • Saugus Department of Public Works — The town department that maintains Saugus streets, sidewalks, drainage and water systems, with a 24-hour emergency line at 781-233-2422 for road hazards.
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 Saugus

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: 4300streetcar / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 (cropped)

Northern Strand Trail

Starts 5.9 mi from central Saugus · Bike · 9.3 mi route · 1 hr · Everett · Lynn

A paved rail trail from the Mystic River to Lynn, straight across the Rumney Marsh

Photo: Pi.1415926535 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Marblehead Rail Trail

Starts 6.8 mi from central Saugus · Bike · 5.5 mi route · 39 min · Marblehead · Swampscott

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

Photo by Brett Wharton on Unsplash

Harbor Walk to Eastie Eats

Starts 7.1 mi from central Saugus · Walk + transit · 1.7 mi route · 1 hr · East Boston

Boston's best-kept-secret Harborwalk + Latin American food scene.

All roams →

Trails in and near Saugus

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

All trails
2
active trips so far in November
6.2
active miles
6
lbs CO₂ avoided*
1
neighbors active so far in November

Saugus 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 Saugus— 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 Saugus by week ending, last 5 completed weeks.

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.

  1. 1Waltham97%
  2. 2Boston93%
  3. 3Somerville93%
  4. 4Cambridge91%
  5. 5Everett90%
  6. 6Medford89%
  7. 7Brookline88%
  8. 8Malden85%
  9. 9Arlington68%
  10. 10Newburyport36%

How Saugus moves

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

Share of trips

67%
33%

Share of miles

65%
35%
Bus
2 trips · 6.2 mi
Driving
1 trips · 3.3 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 Saugus's totals on this page. Shift counts trips on its own.

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