Eligible Cities and Towns

Eighty-five communities in the Boston MPO region are eligible to apply for Suburban Mobility funding.

Please note that any application for a fixed-route transit service will also require complementary paratransit service for eligible persons who are traveling between origins and destinations within three-quarter of a mile of the route, and are unable to access the vehicle used on the route. In some cases, flexible route services may eliminate the need for such complimentary paratransit service. Communities which already have community wide paratransit service will not have to provide additional service, if the existing service operates during the same hour of operation as the proposed fixed-route service, and meets all ADA requirements.

The following are communities which are eligible to apply for the Suburban Mobility program, and also presently are served by the MBTA´s Ride program. Ride service will meet the requirement for complementary ADA paratransit service:

Bedford, Beverly, Burlington, Canton, Cohasset, Concord, Danvers, Dedham, Dover, Framingham, Hingham, Holbrook, Hull, Lexington, Lincoln, Lynn, Lynnfield, Marblehead, Medfield, Melrose, Middleton, Nahant, Natick, Needham, Norwood, Peabody, Randolph, Reading, Salem, Saugus, Sharon, Stoneham, Swampscott, Topsfield, Wakefield, Walpole, Waltham, Wellesley, Weston, Wenham, Westwood, Weymouth, Wilmington, Winchester, Winthrop, Woburn

The following are communities which are eligible to apply for the Suburban Mobility program, and are members of other Massachusetts transit authorities:

Eligible and members of Brockton Area Transit (BAT):
Stoughton

Eligible and members of the Cape Ann Transportation Authority (CATA):
Essex, Gloucester, Ipswich, Rockport

Eligible and members of Greater Attleboro-Taunton Regional Transit Authority (GATRA):
Bellingham, Duxbury, Foxborough, Franklin, Medway, Norfolk, Wrentham

Eligible and members of the Lowell Regional Transit Authority (LRTA):
Acton

Eligible and members of the Metro West Regional Transit Authority (MWRTA):
Ashland, Framingham, Holliston, Hopkinton, Natick, Sherborn, Wayland, Weston

Eligible and members of the Montachusett Regional Transit Authority (MART):
Bolton, Boxborough , Littleton

Eligible and members of the Worcester Regional Transit Authority (WRTA):
Marlborough, Southborough

Demand-response service provided by the transit authority may meet the requirement for ADA paratransit service required for fixed-route service.

The following are communities which are eligible to apply for the Suburban Mobility program, but are not part of the MBTA´s Ride program nor members of other transit authorities. A proposal for new fixed-route service from these communities will also require a plan for complementary paratransit service:

Carlisle, Hamilton, Hanover, Hudson, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Marshfield, Maynard, Millis , Milford, North Reading, Norwell, Pembroke, Rockland, Scituate, Stow, Sudbury

Please note that the following urban communities are not eligible to apply for Suburban Mobility funding, but may apply for Transportation Demand Management (TDM) funding:

Arlington, Belmont, Boston, Braintree, Brookline, Cambridge, Chelsea, Everett, Malden, Medford, Milton, Newton, Quincy, Revere, Somerville, Watertown