Shift Towns · Massachusetts

Walking, biking & transit in Concord

Name: Greater Boston NEMBA Family Halloween Ride
Start: 2026-10-31T10:00:00
Location: Elsie Turner Field, Rock Meadow Playground

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

Get involved in Concord

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

In Concord

City committees you can join

Transportation Advisory Committee – Bicycle Sub-Committee — An official town sub-committee of volunteers and staff that reviews bicycling conditions and improvements in Concord and posts its agendas and minutes publicly.

Advocacy groups

Concord Bikes (via the town's Bike page) — A volunteer community group that promotes everyday biking in Concord, runs the annual Concord Bike Fest, and pushes for safer cycling conditions around town.

Clubs & ride groups

CRW — Organizes group rides in and around Concord.

Commuter perks & fare help

Concord Transportation options and Council on Aging van — Town page listing local travel options, including the weekday door-to-door van that takes eligible Concord seniors to appointments and errands.

Your transportation department

Concord Public Works – Highway & Grounds Division — The town division that maintains Concord's roughly 108 miles of public streets, sidewalks, signs, and storm drains.
Concord Complete Streets Program — The town's effort to build a street network that works for walking, biking, and driving, with information on planned safety and connectivity projects.

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 Concord

A few picks over the next 30 days — the full calendar has everything.

Group Ride · 3

Trek or Treat Ride on the Bruce Freeman Rail Trail

Tue, Oct 27 · West Concord bike share station (next to West Concord commuter rail) · 2.3 mi away

FreeFamily-friendlyBeginner-friendly

October Bike Ride

Sat, Oct 31 · Waltham City Hall · 7.7 mi away

FreeBeginner-friendlyFamily-friendly

Greater Boston NEMBA Family Halloween Ride

Sat, Oct 31 · Elsie Turner Field, Rock Meadow Playground · 7.6 mi away

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: Seasider53 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Battle Road Trail

Starts 4.3 mi from central Concord · Walk · 6 mi route · 2 hr · Lexington · Concord

Walk the path of the American Revolution, from Lexington to Concord

Photo: Pi.1415926535 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

Mass Central Rail Trail: Sudbury to Hudson

Starts 6.8 mi from central Concord · Bike · 5.4 mi route · 35 min · Sudbury · Hudson

Rail history, a rare Pine Barrens ecosystem, and a rebuilt truss bridge

Photo: Karl Alexander

Mystic River Greenway (Alewife to Medford)

Starts 11 mi from central Concord · Bike · 6.7 mi route · 41 min · Arlington · Somerville · Medford

Two rivers, two T stations, and 300 years of history between them

All roams →

#18 of 30
Massachusetts towns by shift rate in October: 17
active trips so far in October: 76.7
active miles: 68
lbs CO₂ avoided*: 4
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 Concord— 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 Concord by week ending, last 5 completed weeks, and climbing.

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. Concord is 35 points behind #1.

How Concord moves

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

Share of trips

76%

18%

Share of miles

8%

91%

Walking: 13 trips · 6.3 mi
Biking & scooting: 1 trips · 0.9 mi
Train: 3 trips · 69.5 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 Concord's totals on this page, earns you rewards at local businesses, and enters you into seasonal prize drawings.

Help Concord climb the board.

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

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