Walk/Ride Day · since 2006

One Friday a month, Massachusetts moves together.

Walk, bike, or ride the T on Walk/Ride Day. If you have the Shift app, every trip you take that day enters you in the month’s gift card drawing. Nothing to sign up for, and it’s free.

The next one is Friday, September 25.

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Sep 25
next Walk/Ride Day
30 × $10
gift cards in the drawing
2006
the first Walk/Ride Day
Free
nothing to sign up for

Open to anyone 18 or older in Massachusetts with the Shift app. Up to three trips a day count toward the drawing. Official rules

How it works

Three steps, and the last one happens on its own.

  1. 1

    Get Shift

    Free on iOS and Android. Sign up once and it quietly recognizes your walks, rides, and transit trips from then on.

  2. 2

    Make a trip on the day

    Walk to the store, bike to work, take the bus to class. One trip is enough; more trips are more chances.

  3. 3

    You’re in the drawing

    Each trip that day enters you automatically. Winners are drawn the next morning and claim their gift card in the app.

Walks, bike rides, buses, trains, and ferries all count, and carpools do too. The app detects them; there is nothing to log. Standings for the day live in the app’s Community tab.

The next few

Usually the last Friday of the month. When that lands on a holiday weekend, it moves a week earlier.

  • Friday, September 25next
  • Friday, October 30prizes announced closer to the day
  • Friday, November 20prizes announced closer to the day
  • Friday, December 18prizes announced closer to the day
Everything running now Events that Friday

Bring your people

Walk/Ride Day started as a workplace thing in 2006. It still works best in groups.

Your workplace

Shift for employers turns Walk/Ride Day into a team standings board, with your own prizes if you want them.

Shift for employers

Your school

Classrooms and campuses count every walk to school. Shift for Schools runs it with parent volunteers.

Shift for Schools

Your town

Every town has a page: what moved, who’s leading, and the events on the calendar that Friday.

Find your town

See you Friday, September 25.

Get the app before then and your first Walk/Ride Day trip counts. If you already have it, you’re set.

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Questions, or want Walk/Ride Day at your workplace? Get in touch.