North Shore Walk Audit Academy Training Seminar, 1/25/25 – 10am
This post has been updated on 1/21/25 with the tentative route.
Please RSVP at bottom of page!
Join WalkMassachusetts this winter to learn how to lead a walk audit with a North Shore Walk Audit Academy program! We’ll start things off with a walk audit training at 10am on January 25, 2025 in Beverly, MA, which will include a demonstration walk audit in downtown Beverly starting at Gentile Brewing Company. Thank you to our convening partner, the Beverly Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee.
What is a walk audit?
Walk audits are a tool for getting community input about walking conditions based on observation and your own lived experience. This firsthand information can add important detail to more technical information, and help improve traffic safety in your area.
What: Walk Audit Training hosted by WalkMassachusetts
When: Saturday 1/25/2025 10am – 1pm
Where: Gentile Brewing Company, 59 Park Street, Beverly, MA 01915
Process: Group session, 1 mile walk audit Rantoul & Cabot Streets, Group Debrief.
This training will familiarize you with existing walk audit materials and protocols which will enable you to conduct audits in your own community. Learning materials and videos are also available on WalkMassachusetts’ website.
WalkMassachusetts’ Walk Audit Academy training uses a ‘flipped classroom’ style; after the kick off meeting, participants review materials/training videos on their own. Any time spent on Zoom together is used to react to the materials, answer questions, and bring up locations on maps for discussion in preparation for leading your own walk audit.
Route for the walk audit

The route is one mile and passes eight locations where there were pedestrian vs motor vehicle incidents, and two bicycle vs motor vehicle incidents. This is a very good area to study because of the concentration of incidents in a relatively small area. It also happens to be an area where pedestrian use has increased and the infrastructure is fairly new. This is a link to the map and the described walking route from the brewery is below.
- right out of the front door up to Federal St
- right again to the intersection with Rantoul St
- right onto Rantoul St
- right on Railroad Ave
- left on Park St
- right on Pleasant St
- right on River St
- Right on Federal St
- Right on Park St
- Gentile Brewery on the left
For any questions that are not answered above:
Beverly Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee:
Carl Kooyoomjian – ckk@kooyoomjian.com
WalkMassachusetts: Brendan Kearney – bkearney@walkmass.org
WalkMassachusetts is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that works to make walking safer and easier in Massachusetts, to encourage better health, a cleaner environment, and more vibrant communities; consider supporting their efforts with a donation. Whether you’re part of a municipal bike/ped committee or just interested in making your community on the North Shore safer for walking, we’d love you to join us on January 25th! Please RSVP below.