Shift Towns · Massachusetts

Walking, biking & transit in Everett

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

Get involved in Everett

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In Everett

Commuter perks & fare help

  • Lower Mystic TMA — Free commuter services — trip planning, incentives, and the GoMassCommute app — for employees, tenants, and residents of member properties in Everett, Medford, Malden, Chelsea, and Charlestown. (info@lowermystictma.com)

Meetings & comment pathways

  • City Meeting Agendas & Minutes — The city's searchable hub for agendas, minutes, and video from the Traffic Commission, City Council, and other public bodies that decide on street changes — all meetings are open to the public.

Your transportation department

  • Department of Transportation and Mobility — The city department guiding Everett's bus lanes, bike lanes, and Complete Streets projects — the first stop for questions and input on how city streets are planned and designed. (617-394-2225)
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 Everett

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: 4300streetcar / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 (cropped)

Northern Strand Trail

Starts 1.2 mi from central Everett · Bike · 9.3 mi route · 1 hr · Everett · Lynn

A paved rail trail from the Mystic River to Lynn, straight across the Rumney Marsh

Photo by G Schwan on Unsplash

Charles River Bike Path Loop

Starts 2.8 mi from central Everett · Bike · 4.1 mi route · 27 min · Boston · Cambridge

The ride everyone should do at least once.

Photo by Yaakov Winiarz on Unsplash

North Point to City Hall

Starts 2.9 mi from central Everett · Bike · 1.6 mi route · 10 min · Boston · Cambridge

The ride that proves Boston is a bike city — almost entirely on protected lanes.

All roams →
#4 of 30
Massachusetts towns by shift rate in October
171
active trips so far in October
762.8
active miles
679
lbs CO₂ avoided*
13
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 Everett— 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).

Where Everett moves

New to Everett? You're joining a town that moves — neighbors logged 9,427 trips on foot, by bike, and on transit in the last 90 days, and Northern Strand Community Trail, Somerville Community Path and Massachusetts Avenue are where you'll find them. A corridor appears only once three or more different people have traveled it — and it follows Everett residents wherever they go, including into neighboring towns, within about six miles of the town center.

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Momentum

Active trips in Everett 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. Everett is 3 points behind #1.

  1. 1Somerville94%
  2. 2Cambridge94%
  3. 3Boston91%
  4. 4Everett91%
  5. 5Salem90%
  6. 6Malden86%
  7. 7Brookline85%
  8. 8Revere81%
  9. 9Medford78%
  10. 10Melrose75%
  11. 11Waltham75%
  12. 12Watertown70%
  13. 13Lincoln70%
  14. 14Arlington68%
  15. 15Newton65%
  16. 16Stoneham62%
  17. 17Saugus60%
  18. 18Concord59%
  19. 19Westborough53%
  20. 20Quincy40%
  21. 21Lexington38%
  22. 22Wakefield37%
  23. 23Newburyport31%
  24. 24Bedford30%
  25. 25Natick23%
  26. 26Peabody21%
  27. 27Winchester17%
  28. 28Burlington14%
  29. 29Framingham8%
  30. 30Danvers8%

How Everett moves

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

Share of trips

16%
69%
8%

Share of miles

73%
17%
Walking
27 trips · 12.6 mi
Biking & scooting
118 trips · 557.2 mi
Bus
14 trips · 60.1 mi
Train
12 trips · 133 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 Everett's totals on this page, earns you rewards at local businesses, and enters you into seasonal prize drawings.

Help Everett climb the board.

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

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