Right. Where exactly should this freeway go? How should this massive project be funded - given the general distaste for taxes around here? Any particular neighborhood you’d like to displace? Maybe we should just ADD MORE LANES TO EVERYTHING. /s

Such a limited response to think anything will be solved with more places for cars. If you really hated this (minor) inconvenience so much, you probably would have found a home closer to work, a work closer to home, or entirely peaced out from SGF? Or, as others have recommended, maybe just leave like 10 mins earlier? You need podcast recommendations?

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This isn't your personal FB feed. If you can't figure it out, jog on

Leave earlier Plan for a "long" commute with audio books, podcasts, music, ect Take backroads. May not be quicker but you won't have to stop as much

No need to be an ass when there are plenty of options, we all have to sit through the same traffic. Would probably get better if residents drove safer/better and didn't acts like crackhead If it upsets you that much go to town meetings, write to town hall get involved with city planning and local politics.

As someone who lives in the Northside I can confirm it's definitely sketchy looking from the outside looking in. The biggest issue is the roaming bands of homeless people. My neighborhood got a lot safer after the brown derby closed down and if we could get the slot machines out of the fast and friendlys it'd be a lot nicer.

City Planning wasn’t really a thing in Springfield until the 50s

My work commute has me on Kansas Expressway and Chestnut Expressway 5 times a week and I agree. I've also called them "Expressways" multiple times. It's a pain if you hit the lights, especially at the start of downtown. I don't think a freeway through the city would help that much, though, and I'm having trouble picturing what it would even look like. Probably similar to Tulsa, where one stall or wreck shuts everything down, just like what we have now. Maybe if the bus system was better and more people used it instead of their cars, that might relieve it somewhat.

As pithy as it sounds, planning ahead really is key. If I can get on the road before 7:30 am, my commute usually takes less than 15 minutes. By 7:40, it usually takes 20-25 minutes and I end up right on time or late.

Lived in the "Heart of the Westside" from the 80s-2006 when I moved to Dallas but still visit Springfield often cuz of family.

I only carry my gun when I go to Springfield. I would feel safer walking thru the downtown Dallas greyhound station at 2am than walking alone on the north side in Springfield.

When I had to handle my Dad's estate and sell the house I grew up in a couple years ago, it went for just $17k. It was a pos, but jfc.

For some reason, every time I visit, I see a random dead body. Last time in the middle of Glenstone.

I feel like the last thing we need is 5-7 more years of constant road construction. Not to mention the people and businesses that would need to be displaced in order to build a freeway.

Cult pay is notoriously low and the hours suck, I'd shoot more for a leadership position. You'll need a beard and some more guns.

He has a very particular set of skills, skills he's acquired over a very long career.

How many Scientologists can there really be in Springfield?? Springfieldians aren't typically scientology-rich. Or do they have discounts now?

I live outside city limits in the county, I just come to these threads to laugh.

I've always loved that Springfield doesn't have a freeway through the middle of the city. Those are for getting you between cities, not for commuting. A freeway would be even more of a barrier than Chestnut Expy already is. For once, Springfield got something very right.

Yeah that's a thing with Springfield. Expressways aren't, and the bypasses don't. Good thing though is that a speed limit of 40 means don't go too much over 55.

You coulda just kept your mouth closed in the first place then.

No, thanks.

Not to mention they don’t have the same protections as ACH. I’ve worked banking too long to feel comfortable with that risk. Even making a business invoice in PayPal would be better.

Agree. I’m of the opinion that services like these are really only benefitting some middle man and prefer any interpersonal transaction be through cash. Unless people are just using it for tax avoidance or something which… lol I guess that’s their prerogative

Elaborate

Plan accordingly.

Yeah, there is a lot of patchiness in between. There are some nice neighborhoods (around the OTC area isn’t bad) and some not-so-nice (stuff off of Grant can get dicey). Some of the houses in the Cox North area are quite nice, you get the beautiful old houses on Benton/Jefferson, but then if something is empty longer than a week, you’ve got a decent chance of someone breaking a window and squatting.

Used to do pharmaceutical deliveries and there were definitely neighborhoods in Springfield where I tried to make sure all the rest of my deliveries weren’t very visible in the car, especially if I had to go into an apartment or something. I also made sure if I had anything north I was going in the daylight.

True

BoA is where I’ve had Zelle fraud but they fixed it really quickly. Shenanigans like that are why I never use those services, give them no excuse to deny a claim.