Boston Region Metropolitan Planning Organization

Eighty-five communities in the Boston Region MPO area are eligible to apply for Suburban Mobility Program funding. Regional transit authorities, transportation management associations, and the regional planning agency in the area are also eligible.

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 quarters 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 complementary paratransit service. Communities which already have communitywide paratransit service will not have to provide additional service if the existing service operates during the same hours of operation as the proposed fixed-route service, and meets all ADA requirements.

The following are the communities that are eligible to apply for Suburban Mobility Program funding and also are presently served by the MBTA´s THE RIDE program. THE RIDE service will satisfy the requirement that complementary, ADA-compliant paratransit service accompany fixed-route service.

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

The following are the communities that are eligible to apply for Suburban Mobility Program funding and are members of Massachusetts transit authorities other than the MBTA:

Eligible and member 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, Marshfield, Medway, Norfolk, Pembroke, Wrentham

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

Eligible and member of the MetroWest Regional Transit Authority (MWRTA)
Ashland, Framingham, Holliston, Hopkinton, Marlborough, Natick, Sherborn, Southborough, Sudbury, Wayland, Weston

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

Demand-response service provided by the transit authority may meet the requirement that complementary, ADA-compliant paratransit service accompany fixed-route service.

The following are the communities that are eligible to apply for Suburban Mobility Program funding, but are neither part of the MBTA´s THE 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, ADA-compliant paratransit services.

Carlisle	Hudson	Millis	Norwell
Hamilton	Manchester-by-the-Sea	Milford	Rockland
Hanover	Maynard	North Reading	Scituate

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

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