Peter Calves

Streets for people!!! Traffic Engineer @ Nitsch Engineering, member Medford CD Board. @CEE_NEU '16. opinions not my employer’s or the City of Medford’s . He/Him

[Peter Calves @PeteCalvs]

I’ve ridden the system on the left, and will ride the one on the right next week. If the T could get halfway to either it would be a vast improvement

[TransitMatters @transitmatters]

🚅 Modernizing the system to a fast, frequent, electric Regional Rail operating model is a better use of taxpayer money.

🚅 Ridership will go up, operating costs per trip will go down, & trains will be far more reliable.

[TransitMatters @transitmatters]

🚨 New report alert!

➡️ The legislature, @MassGovernor, @MassDOT, & @MBTA cannot afford to wait for the T’s crisis to end to begin making investments in transforming the Commuter Rail into Regional Rail.

🧵 Let’s talk about WHY Regional Rail is important & HOW to make it happen

[Peter Calves @PeteCalvs]

No one has ever done more to convince me of the need for automated traffic enforcement than the number of drivers I watched blow red lights (some slowly and deliberately) on my bike trip from Wellington to Inman this morning. There needs to be a disincentive for this behavior

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

"Public investment" vs "Wasteful Subsidy." The only problem with this clever classic Singer cartoon is that some people might not get that it’s illustrating the perception problem, NOT telling the truth.

Just in case it actually needs to be said, the truth is the opposite.

[Peter Calves @PeteCalvs]

Note for #mapoli that does say “high housing costs” and not “high taxes on rich people”

[GBH News @GBHNews]

Record numbers of young people are leaving Massachusetts, squeezed out by high housing and other costs:

https://t.co/NOuRlXdVVI

[Shenpai @AeroViro]

so much noise in my brain i disintegrate into a puddle on the floor

[Bluebikes @RideBluebikes]

⚠️ New Station Alert 🎉

The Harris Park station in Medford is ready to ride!

Find all stations near you in the Bluebikes app.

https://t.co/9HO3Mfdvql

[Peter Calves @PeteCalvs]

I don’t know if @Amtrak upgraded their wifi recently but this is the second straight Northeast Regional trip I’ve had where I I’ve been able to work unrestricted, and that hasn’t been true in all the years I’ve been riding the NEC

[Peter Calves @PeteCalvs]

I feel like the public murder of Jordan Neely is the perfect bizzarro Bernie Goetz Moment of this bizzarro rehash of the 80s some people seem to think NYC is having. Guy was being annoying, not threatening, and some guy decided that was cause for violence and death. Very sad

[Peter Calves @PeteCalvs]

@UrbEducator Fair, but they should improve the RTAs for the other 2/3rd of the state that aren’t covered by the T. If Vermont can have that quality of access we can do it in the non-T areas

[Peter Calves @PeteCalvs]

Hot take, MA should be ashamed to be so poorly ranked on this map

[Stephen Kenny 🦋 @stephenkenny.bsky.social @s_kenny25]

How does your state stack up on transit quality? We @T4America mapped 1) an indexed measure of transit access quality and 2) VMT per person as a proxy measure of ridership.

More here: https://t.co/w4XIHMX3mk

[Peter Calves @PeteCalvs]

Though we do well on low VMT, to lose out to Vermont for quality of transit access within Mew England is embarrassing

[Progressive Mass @ProgressiveMass]

The sheer audacity of saying "We'll just need tighter budgets" after proposing massive tax cuts for the rich and large estates

#mapoli

https://t.co/fvBU35CSCw

[Victoria Marini @LitAgentMarini]

PSA: The WGA strike may mean that novelists & authors get approached for screenwriting. While this may seem like a perfect opportunity, please note that the WGA does strongly enforces its right to prevent non-members who have engaged in scabbing from ever becoming members.

[Peter Calves @PeteCalvs]

So exciting!! Newbury to be closed for 16 Sundays in a row this year. One step closer to the full pedestrianization we all deserve

[Peter Calves @PeteCalvs]

I rag on the @mbta when things are bad, and they still are. But today’s orange line commute had ONE slow zone from Wellington to State. That’s down from three or four two weeks ago and gives so much hope

[Peter Calves @PeteCalvs]

@Kit4Medford Nobody asked, but it is appreciated!

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

“Women shall have equal rights in the [U.S.] & every place subject to its jurisdiction. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the [U.S.] or by any State on account of sex.”

Senate Republicans just voted to block that from going in the Constitution.

[Cambridge Crossing @CXCambridge]

In celebration of #biketoworkweek & #bikemonth in May, we are hosting #CXCycleFest including a cycling expo, @REI's Mobile Bike Shop, @MassBike Group Ride, Stationary Bike Spin class with @fitlifema, food trucks, giveaways, and more! Register today: https://t.co/SUvC9PJJH6

[Jonathan Berk @berkie1]

This is a regional problem with a regional solution.

When communities in Greater Boston make the conscious decision to fight new housing… to fight zoning changes… you’re harming real people and you’re ruining our region’s future and the lives of millions in the process.