Shift Towns · Massachusetts

Walking, biking & transit in Westford

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

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In Westford

City committees you can join

Westford Pedestrian Safety Committee — A town committee that reviews walking and crossing safety problems on Westford streets and recommends sidewalk and traffic-calming improvements to town officials.

Advocacy groups

Friends of the Bruce Freeman Rail Trail — A volunteer group working to build and maintain the off-road rail trail that runs through Westford, with trail maps, construction updates, and ways to volunteer or speak up for the next segment.

Construction & closures

Westford Latest Road Construction News — The town page listing current road work, closures, and detours so you know which streets are torn up or blocked before you walk or ride.

Your transportation department

Westford Highway Division (Department of Public Works) — The town department that maintains Westford's roads, sidewalks, traffic lines, street signs, drainage, and snow removal across about 153 miles of town streets.

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 October: 0
active miles: 0
lbs CO₂ avoided*: 0
neighbors active so far in October

Westford 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 Westford— 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.

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

Put Westford on the board.

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

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