Shift Towns · Massachusetts

Walking, biking & transit in Braintree

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

Get involved in Braintree

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

Happening nowTue, Nov 17 · 6:30 PM · virtual

Braintree - Bridge replacement, B-21-017, Washington Street (St 37) over MBTA/CSX railroad

MassDOT is holding a virtual public hearing on the design for replacing the Washington Street bridge over the MBTA/CSX railroad in Braintree, and residents can comment on how the new bridge is designed.

Attend the virtual hearing→

In Braintree

City committees you can join

  • Braintree Complete Streets — The town's Complete Streets program, adopted by policy in 2017, which requires town and state road projects in Braintree to consider walking, biking, and transit access, and whose page lists the town's planned sidewalk and bike improvements.

Clubs & ride groups

Meetings & comment pathways

  • Braintree Agenda Center — The town's central archive of posted agendas and minutes for Braintree boards and council committees, including the Public Works and Ways & Means committees.

Your transportation department

  • Braintree Department of Public Works — The town department responsible for maintaining Braintree's roads, sidewalks, and other public works, and the office to contact about street conditions or repairs.
  • Braintree Engineering Division — The DPW division that designs and reviews Braintree street, sidewalk, and drainage projects and holds the town's road plans and records.
  • Braintree Highway & Grounds Division — The DPW crew that does the actual paving, pothole patching, street sweeping, and snow clearing on Braintree streets, reachable directly by phone for road maintenance questions.

Report an issue

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 Braintree

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 Herry Sutanto on Unsplash

Museum Hop

Starts 11 mi from central Braintree · Walk + transit · 3.6 mi route · 3 hr · Boston

Three world-class museums, zero parking headaches.

Photo by Mark Olsen on Unsplash

Emerald Necklace Bike Route

Starts 11 mi from central Braintree · Bike · 7.3 mi route · 49 min · Boston · Brookline

Olmsted's seven-mile chain of parks, end to end.

Photo by Sean Sweeney on Unsplash

The Freedom Trail

Starts 11 mi from central Braintree · Walk · 3.5 mi route · 1 hr 10 min · Boston

Sixteen stops, 2.5 miles, 400 years of history.

All roams →
11
active trips so far in October
209.6
active miles
187
lbs CO₂ avoided*
4
neighbors active so far in October

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

Sep 27Oct 4Oct 11Oct 18Oct 25

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. 1Somerville94%
  2. 2Cambridge94%
  3. 3Boston91%
  4. 4Everett90%
  5. 5Salem90%
  6. 6Malden86%
  7. 7Brookline85%
  8. 8Revere81%
  9. 9Medford78%
  10. 10Melrose75%
  11. 11Waltham70%
  12. 12Watertown70%
  13. 13Lincoln70%
  14. 14Arlington66%
  15. 15Newton64%
  16. 16Stoneham62%
  17. 17Saugus60%
  18. 18Concord59%
  19. 19Westborough53%
  20. 20Quincy40%
  21. 21Lexington37%
  22. 22Wakefield37%
  23. 23Newburyport31%
  24. 24Bedford30%
  25. 25Natick23%
  26. 26Peabody23%
  27. 27Winchester17%
  28. 28Burlington14%
  29. 29Framingham8%
  30. 30Danvers5%

How Braintree moves

Active trips and miles so far in October, by mode.

Share of trips

9%
18%
73%

Share of miles

90%
Walking
1 trips · 3.6 mi
Bus
2 trips · 16.4 mi
Train
8 trips · 189.6 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 Braintree's totals on this page, earns you rewards at local businesses, and enters you into seasonal prize drawings.

Put Braintree on the board.

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

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