Shift Towns · Massachusetts
Walking, biking & transit in Waltham
See the routes Waltham 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 Waltham. New street projects, meetings worth your voice, and how Waltham is moving. One or two emails a month.
Get involved in Waltham
Safer streets are made by neighbors who speak up. Start small:
In Waltham
City committees you can join
- Waltham Bicycle Advisory Committee — A volunteer committee that meets monthly on a Thursday evening at the Waltham Public Library to push for safer biking and walking in the city, and publishes agendas, minutes, and local project news to its email list.
Clubs & ride groups
- Bike Together Waltham — Organizes group rides in and around Waltham.
Commuter perks & fare help
- 128 Business Council — A Waltham-based transportation management association that runs low-cost commuter shuttles connecting Waltham workplaces with transit and helps employers set up commuting programs.
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 Waltham
A few picks over the next 30 days — the full calendar has everything.
Weekly Multigroup Community Sunset Walk at Fresh Pond + Optional Dinner 4:30pm EDT
Sun, Oct 25 · Aberdeen Ave & Huron Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138 · 4.8 mi away
FreeFamily-friendlyBeginner-friendlySnail walk with Mary P
Wed, Oct 28 · 35 Brookford St, Cambridge, MA · 5.5 mi away
FreeBeginner-friendlyFamily-friendlyRoams 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: Seasider53 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Starts 4.6 mi from central Waltham · Walk · 6 mi route · 2 hr · Lexington · Concord
Walk the path of the American Revolution, from Lexington to Concord
Photo: Karl AlexanderMystic River Greenway (Alewife to Medford)
Starts 4.8 mi from central Waltham · Bike · 6.7 mi route · 41 min · Arlington · Somerville · Medford
Two rivers, two T stations, and 300 years of history between them
Starts 4.9 mi from central Waltham · Walk · 2.5 mi route · 50 min · Cambridge
Cambridge's 155-acre reservoir, fully looped, no street crossings.
- #17 of 26
- Massachusetts towns by shift rate in October
- 24
- active trips so far in October
- 48.7
- active miles
- 43
- lbs CO₂ avoided*
- 8
- neighbors active so far in October
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 Waltham— 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 Waltham by week ending, last 5 completed weeks, and climbing.
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. Waltham is 39 points behind #1.
- 1Cambridge94%
- 2Somerville94%
- 3Everett91%
- 4Boston91%
- 5Salem87%
- 6Malden86%
- 7Brookline86%
- 8Medford83%
- 9Revere81%
- 10Watertown75%
- 11Melrose73%
- 12Lincoln73%
- 13Arlington70%
- 14Newton68%
- 15Stoneham66%
- 16Saugus61%
- 17Waltham55%
- 18Westborough54%
- 19Wakefield43%
- 20Quincy42%
- 21Lexington32%
- 22Newburyport28%
- 23Peabody25%
- 24Natick24%
- 25Framingham11%
- 26Danvers5%
How Waltham moves
Active trips and miles so far in October, by mode.
Share of trips
Share of miles
- Walking
- 15 trips · 10.7 mi
- Biking & scooting
- 6 trips · 8.9 mi
- Train
- 3 trips · 29 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 Waltham's totals on this page, earns you rewards at local businesses, and enters you into seasonal prize drawings.
Help Waltham climb the board.
Every walk, ride, and transit trip counts automatically. Download Shift free and put your trips on Waltham's board.
Community stats reflect trips by Shift community members that start or end in Waltham 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.