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Television_Wise t1_j52a2rv wrote

Reply to comment by Andy_Dufrane_ in WTF do I have to join a cult to find a job around here damn! by mrd247

Wrong. Some places may use that term, but it's not universal throughout the field. Some hospitals call it housekeeping, some label the role as custodian, and some, like Cox, call it EVS. But they chose EVS for a reason when they could have used a more straightforward term.

You don't see people asking "What's a janitor?" but you see people wondering WTF EVS means.

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Stonedprincess0912 t1_j523wlj wrote

Reply to comment by Lost-Can-4218 in This subreddit seems pretty blind when it comes to Northern Springfield. by PixelSteel

You quite literally do not know me and say I have chronic plant use. My name is stonedprincess, yes. But your assumption that me being stoned = chronic plant use- Solidifies my assumption that you are a very prejudice person who has seen a few drug addicts in Walmart (huge shocker there) and a dirty bathroom and made the decision on who these people were and what quality this Walmart would holds for itself. Please come back when you open your eyes past the emotional damage that came from you losing your job of securing E Karney Walmart.

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MusicFlat5496 t1_j5216dp wrote

Reply to This subreddit seems pretty blind when it comes to Northern Springfield. by PixelSteel

I lived on the north side for several years, off Kearney and also Atlantic. No doubt it’s a shit hole, not sure if some of you are delusional or have just never lived anywhere else. I felt safer walking around at night in Miami FL around NW 117th Ave, which is also a shit hole.

Had meth head scrappers for neighbors, had my car broken into twice. Once for the faceplate off my stereo and again in an attempt to steal the car.

Anything not chained down is asking to be stolen. Like the license plates off my car, or even the damn ashtray and half smoked butts off my front porch.

Wanna take your kid to the park? Sorry there’s homeless people sleeping and pissing on it.

Random gunfire. Full on screaming arguments and fights past midnight in the streets. Gas tank on my girlfriends car drilled and siphoned.

The list goes on and on. I moved down south some near bass pro and it really isn’t much better. Had my backyard here broken into within the first week or two. Also had some wasted girl searching for her meth pipe in my yard here.

Anywho, your assessment is correct the north side is a dump. I’m talking Chestnut to Norton in between Kansas expressway and Glenstone. Not some cushy suburb with cookie cutter houses just outside the city limits.

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Dbol504 t1_j51y5eu wrote

Reply to comment by Ieatpotpie in Springfield infrastructure. by PettyPoet

I hear expressway I think of expressways I've seen in other states where there are limited red lights and smaller side roads that allow accesses to businesses. Or something more akin to Southwest Trafficway in KC that has very few redlights and is 3 lanes for a right turn lane / extra driving lane.

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Ieatpotpie t1_j51wm5h wrote

Reply to Springfield infrastructure. by PettyPoet

The term expressway in Missouri parlance is exactly what both Chestnut and Kansas are. Missouri expressways. Full access control is called a freeway. John Q. was instrumental in directing I-44 to the north side instead of through town, where Chestnut is now, in the 1950s. Good or bad it was debated then. And freeways through the hearts of cities decimate neighborhoods, usually poor and lacking political power.

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Dear_Significance_80 t1_j51vlvw wrote

Reply to Springfield infrastructure. by PettyPoet

I tried getting ahold of the city about a problem with the timing of one of the lights on Chestnut and found out that all of the lights on chestnut are controlled by MODOT. They were surprisingly responsive to my complaint unfortunately it ultimately didn't matter and people are still having to run the light because it's like it gets stuck and never changes for left turning traffic.

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Jimithyashford t1_j51sr8n wrote

Reply to Springfield infrastructure. by PettyPoet

Springfield was not laid out with that in mind. It was not laid out with the idea of large traffic flow in and out of the city center ever being needed, but rather used bypasses to get heavy traffic around and past town.

Now is that a good idea? In hindsight probably not. At the time those choices were made? I mean who knows. A city's road layout is a cumulation of countless choices by a LOT of different planners and interests over generations.

But the real question is, if we all agree it's a problem, and will likely only become more of a problem as the population grows, then we have to ask....what do we do about it?

The only think you really can do is imminent domain probably tens of millions of dollars worth of property in the areas you'd need to put a new major thoroughfare in, get the budget to build such a thing in addition to those imminent domain costs, and then have the city deal with the extra congestion during the like 4-8 years it would take for such a project to be completed.

Maybe that is what needs to happen, take national and chestnut and expand them into major thoroughfares with offramps instead of lights. Sure, sounds great probably, but it would obviously be an immensely costly and painful process.

And of course no matter how good of an idea it may be, you'd have hundreds of people in the community, and on threads just like this one, talking about how the city doesn't' care about people and this is a terrible idea and they are destroying historic neighborhoods and they should all lose their jobs so on so forth. I mean we can hardly put in a beaver themed gas station in a spot no one lives at without pissing off half the town.

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Bitmush- t1_j51rv5p wrote

Reply to Springfield infrastructure. by PettyPoet

Bring back street cars, extend the zone of people-friendly streets and neighborhoods indefinitely. It generates more revenue and people are happier. Go to Amsterdam and marvel at what it’s like to be a generation in the future.

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