Comments by "kristine Sharp" (@kristinesharp6286) on "Getting to Work: Japan vs USA" video.

@rocklolita and high schools. There could be thousands of students and hundreds of teachers and staff on buses and in cars and walking.
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I used to live in Chicago. In a single family house in the neighborhoods but within the limits. It was buses that ran 15 minutes and then a transfer to get to the train and then wait for the train and finally get there. No route was more than 25 minutes but combined it could take an hour. No where near enough parking to drive to the station and bypass the bus. Suburbs are much harder for public transit. Limited times of service too. Most kids walk to school in the city. I never got on a yellow bus except for a field trip. I took a regular city fare bus to high school, dropped me off a few blocks away.
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@andreiistrate2214 it is for the benefit of the general public. The general public would be waiting much longer in traffic if this not done and the city doesn’t have to put in a light saving money and further irritation if residents having a light that is not needed most of the time. There would be a lot of complaints if the area was a mess cause there was always a UPS truck making a right over a half hour period. I grew up in a Catholic neighborhood. Hundreds of cars in a five minute period making a right out of the church parking lot. It was not enough to warrant the police doing that service. But it was annoying to everyone around that area you just learned to avoid that street certain times on Saturday and Sunday for those 5 minute periods. The church only holds 800-1000 so they just had many different times for services. Some walked and most drove. An established mega church, many thousands attending at once, that built would have a few ways out of the parking lot in order to get approved. A church starting out renting from a industrial park or a school would not have that. It’s paid for, there is a presence of police at a place where several are gathered which has its own benefit, better to provide traffic assistance than deal with clean up of an accident. The squad car is a great reminder to slow down and not be aggressive cause you are tired of waiting so long in traffic. Robbers are not going to be blocking the parade of UPS trucks in order to break in and steal the contents. As for high schools there are traffic patterns expected of buses, students and parents picking up and dropping off and within the parking lot itself. You have to a go certain way to go north and a different way to go south as a parent. The person going north has to go the entire length of the school and down a winding path leading to a side street where you must turn right and then you are a light where you can turn left. The person going south can immediately turn right in a right turn only exit almost immediately but they are stuck behind the students trying to exit to go right or left. They don’t want 600 cars all going right and screwing up the next several lights or seeing a ton of crazy upturns. So they have an officer there briefly to send 300 cars left and 300 right. Even then my son coming home from a different school was impatient when the driver went past the high school during dismissal cause it always took extra time. I avoided the area if I picked him up for say a dentist appt after school the exact same time. I would rather go around. It took less time. But the drivers obviously wanting to save fuel go the path that is shortest. The residents want UPS there. It’s great for jobs and accessibility to packages. Companies pay taxes like residents so another plus. It’s not usually a free service. Everyone wins. My current parish is a new build in the suburbs 25 years ago. The church is on a corner. They have points of access to the parking lot on the west and north sides of the building. We never need police assistance except maybe at a fiesta or if a school rents the space for an event. It’s no different than a group wanting to permit to have a parade, protest the correct way, have a block party, city team makes the championships, etc.. Police and fire are informed and possibly are needed.
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@wzukr the company would pay the city. The city pays the cops. Sometimes the officers are working overtime to deal with such things as getting to the championship. The Chicago bulls is a company. Why should the grocery store clerk’s taxes pay for the police overtime when the city is on high alert cause a win or loss will lead to looting, damage, shots fired in the air, fireworks, arson and drunken nonsense. Win or lose the city will be chaos. The Chicago Bulls are expected to pay the city money due to extra police being needed during the championships. When those situations happen everyone has to work which means some get overtime as they were supposed to be off or are working 12 hours instead of just 8. Terrible decision I think as you want the person driving and carrying guns and tasers well rested. Someone needs to pay for that. There is a negotiation. The city wants to keep the team and benefits from their success. But the city also would be in the red if they didn’t pay anything and the residents and other business owners livid.
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I grew up in a Chicago neighborhood and knew to be scared of the street and stop at the curb before age 2. Seeing kids walk in the street in Japan is stressful.
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In the Chicago suburbs a lot of people come from Japan to work 3 years. Their kids go to a Japan funded school that works with the local school district to make sure everything is okay by our standards too but they are able to not get behind in the school system back home too. It’s not walkable for them. So a very different experience. I think one of the companies is a car company though. Arlington Heights Schaumburg area. Much like Indianapolis.
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There are year round produce and seafood options for most people in US and room to store it all. Delivery for groceries.
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Yeah I don’t understand the school is technically responsible for getting students to school. My son has does mix of bus and me driving or walking depending on grade and weather. Some schools closer and some farther from house. And that they put all the preschool kids in one school and put all the 6-8 graders in another and the high school students in yet another. They even divided the high school by grade as there are now two campuses. Even though we are in the suburbs if the local school was not just K-5 but p-8 and the local high school was 9-12 or if they had p-5 and then 6-12 he would never have needed a bus. Other would have needed I suppose a few pockets really not near a building. They really want students to branch out and make new friends every now and then. Driving to school hard for work, although there are before afterschool care hours you can pay for. Still with a 8 hour work day and 2 more hours for commuting and a five -seven hour school day it is a tough schedule. Some students get breakfast at school.
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@suspiciouspooh5988 Indiana does have less taxes than Illinois. Still someone should sue. Too much money goes to admin and not enough to each student. They had a year without needed to take anyone to school. Wait. I am Illinois. You probably had school. What a world and time to be alive to figure out if you want busing or you want to have in person classes for a year in the US of all places? Now some students pay for busing and for some students it is free. My son has an IEP so when I did not take him and he could not walk to school it was free. When I was 8 I would have had to walk along a busy street for school. Gram drove us until we were 11/13. I had been walking the three blocks to school without having to go near the busy street all by myself at age 5 with a 10 year old being the crossing guard but my parents pulled me and a lot of other parents pulled their kids cause the city wanted to bus a bunch of us randomly. My mom didn’t drive she wanted us to go to a school she could get to in walking distance for conferences and programs and besides religious school was the plan after they saved some money and could maintain the tuition for both of us. Very few nuns were teaching like when my parents went to parochial school and the prices just skyrocketed. It was the late 70’s, inflation and high mortgage interest. I loved walking 3 blocks away and coming home for lunch and watching tv before going back. It would have taken forever if I got picked up by car. Once the busy street was involved it was the car with gram and bringing a sandwich for lunch.
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@wzukr I looked it up. Maybe it is a state law? Because they didn’t build a school within 1.5 miles that has a place for that student. The local government is who decides how many homes and where and how many schools and where. If there are no walkable spots it is their fault. I’m in a blue over taxed neighboring state. My student has special needs so as a free bus door to door even if it was the school 4 blocks away. Which is was not. Some schools were 4 miles away. Some 3 blocks away. He is in high school and he walks or I drive cause it just nuts getting official transportation for 3 blocks given his age and my availability. He may be able to drive at some point. I drove him a year in preschool and really got pressured to put him on the bus. The school was more set up for buses dropping kids off, walkers and not car riders, there was a worry about his getting into the street, parking and just a better transition for the kids to walk off the bus into the room and the separation to have already happened. If the school was less than 1.5 and I wanted a bus and he didn’t have special needs I could pay for that. If he was not special needs and the school was more than 1.5 it would be free. He was having a hard time handling the bus and one day started walking the 3 miles home in middle school and no one knew. He didn’t get off the bus it was quite a worry. I ended up driving him again a short time later.
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I’m shocked about no buses. I’m in Il. We have buses. Some kids can walk. Some get driven.
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Hospital medical staff have to be 20 minutes away.
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Live outside Chicago now. Lived inside Chicago a long time. Chicago has one of the worst commute times in the country. I have had 1 hours drives to college and work. Every thing goes toward downtown. So if you are going to or from downtown it’s fine. Still I was 25 minutes by train and then there were the buses to wait 15 minutes for and then be on and then transfer. It’s still an hour each way cause you have to time it to the schedule. If going from one neighborhood to another not toward for away from downtown it is not going to work using public transit.
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@LifeWhereImFrom surely there is a city like Indianapolis.
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Different people need different things. The person in the wheel chair doesn’t need the braille in the elevator but it’s helpful for the person who reads Braille. Not every accommodation is meant for everyone. But let’s face it the automatic doors and ramps help moms and dads with strollers or the person carrying a lot. Even a person who doesn’t need the accessibility can benefit. I think we are all happy the bathroom stalls got big enough to actually use. Least some of them.
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Crashes can be honest errors, weather related, intentional bad behavior. No one is perfect.
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In Japan there are people with cars but it takes more time to drive them. Every house has a spot for one or two.
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I walked to school and in Chicago everyday whether in public or private school. I used a city fare bus to get part of the way to my high school. I had to walk half of the way. The only time I used a yellow bus was when my class went on a field trip. Part of high school I drove once I got my license. Helpful as I had a job to drive to. 2000 students in the school. Another school, for boys, right next door also with over a thousand students. I don’t think schools are that large in Japan. There are probably more schools as well.
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@tooki3698 when I lived in the neighborhoods, most the time, almost no one lived downtown. People worked downtown and lived in the neighborhoods. People were just starting to move back into the Loop 5 years before I left. I would still say most people live in the neighborhoods in a 3-5 flat or ranch or two story home with tiny yard. I went to college on the edge of downtown driving through many neighborhoods. I had to go downtown for work on occasion and took the train. But I also fairly often had to go between Hegewisch and Chicago Lawn for meetings or training. Or between Morgan Park and Gage Park. Or Mt Greenwood to Clearing. Car was necessary. Never was in a car to get to the grocery store until I was 13? My mom always walked with us there. Part of the commute time was long was because until my mid 20’s I didn’t drive 294, 290, Dan Ryan.. I did have a fear of the big green signs. It made no sense to go so much out of the way east just to north again. Took me two hours to go from one area of cook county to another for a conference on busy streets. I have never myself driven within downtown. In the summer my husband took the train downtown for work events. He is normally remote and it’s really too far away but still wanted to meet some of them in person. The first day great. Long but great. The second day the train hit a car on the way back. More of a near miss. Everyone fine but the delay was no joke especially for a near miss they were calling it. No injury or damage. My mom went downtown by train walked to another station to get on another train to get to my house. It took half a day if she missed a train, sometimes by just a few minutes and they are so spaced out on weekends. I have been to train stations where they had an officer standing there telling people not to cross because the lights were already flashing. It’s a huge fine, dangerous. I was glad the officer was there. That is rare there was probably a game or something with people not normally using the train for there to be the officer or maybe a recent accident? They used to have announcements that the train was approaching to be fair, not anymore. So people could find the right side to be on and be ready. Those days are gone. The signage is not that great either to which side to be on. Police have a lot to do. Americans don’t know how to leave church, high school, dispatch centers on their own and even need help crossing train tracks. 🤔
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This is not accurate at all. There are a number of adaptations made to a vehicle to assist a person with a disability. They also perhaps have a relative or caregiver to get them around. They certainly can’t call a cab. Some bus service that is a dial a ride might have accessibility. The reason for the parking spot is so they don’t have to walk far to and from where they drive, doctor.. store.. work.. school. Or because they need the ramp curb and those areas are shoveled properly. All drivers are completely capable and often the driver is the person qualified to get the sticker. Sometimes the sticker is temporary after a heart attack or a certain surgery. It’s up the doctors.
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@miaalexanderthegreat there is state money for those things and insurance covers to a degree. A missing limb person might be fine on their own. An autistic person might be able to get to and from a party time job on their own. A blind person might be able to walk to the store and home again. The sidewalks have bumps when the street I coming up. Assist animals allowed most places. A wounded vet may get a fitted home provided by a charity. The VA may be able to provide a prosthetic. Honestly it was the boomers than put forth the ADA because they themselves were about to turn 60 in 2000 (half the pop) and wanted some of these accommodations like ramps. The bill gave years to become compliant. Always about the boomers.
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@citrusella-nomorecraptions would you rather have an accessibility requirement in Japan or the US? Nothing newly built is a problem. Retrofitting older buildings the issue. The ADA was cause of the Boomers. That is what it pushed it over the edge. The gov always take their time. That is why the gov paying for everyone and controlling everything is such a bad idea.
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Oh my goodness Portillos they have staff in person greeting cars in the drive up lane to help take orders and direct cars. It’s awful. Hot Dogs okay though. What gets me is the backup screwing up traffic of the Starbucks. They should be the farthest business in the strip mall not just off the Main Street to get into the strip mall. Always overflow. Just saying.
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A lot of people do have cars in Japan though. Every house has a spot for one or two.
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My area has a lot of bike paths but for exercise and safety.
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I’m 50. I try to park farther from the door unless someone in the car has a hard time walking. I know some seniors don’t have a condition enough to warrant a parking sticker, but would appreciate being closer to the door.
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They can’t use a squad car off duty.
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In the suburbs or city it does not warrant a traffic light for traffic once or twice a day. There is a point when they are calling out police to take care of traffic incidents for people trying to get around it just easier to have them directing in the first place. Schools, church services for the larger ones and some commercial situations. A lot of property tax and local tax comes from commercial enterprises. Not just residents.
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@wzukr Even off duty officers raced to the scene. They were standing down cause of confusion over when it’s okay to act. There may have been border security and local cops who have differently chain of commands. That has been confusing when can a policeman take action. I’m not sure we will ever know or believe what happened there. You have to admit given there are arrests of the responding officers even when the suspect if full of illegal narcotics which makes their reposes to police unusual or whether they are holding a knife or gun in their hand for try to run over the cop or someone else with a car. They are hassled all the time. Even with Pelosi the cops said drop the hammer, he didn’t drop it big surprise and hit Mr. Pelosi. Then the cops tackled the guy with the hammer, I would have had them shoot the guy with the hammer before he hit Mr. Pelosi. But luckily I’m not a cop. The man should have a body guard living where he does having as much as he does and unable to drive from time to time. Just saying. The local community is responsible for housing permits and school being built. If most students are not within 1.5 miles of their assigned assigned school it’s on them. Chicago was busing kids to the school I attended. They were trying to bus kids out of the school I was attending. People switched to parochial school they could walk to. Who puts a 7 year old 3 blocks from a school on a bus for 40 minutes? Just cause? If you don’t like the local school fine but if you are happy with the school and it is close why do it? You have less parents able to walk to the school which brings down school safety en route for the walkers and less parental involvement. Let me tell you a few dads working late on the sidewalk in front of the school having been able to walk their kids to school in the morning is safer than a uniformed officer and squad car on the street. Just saying. Mayors are in charge of local police.
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There are times a traffic light is not needed cause there is only coming and goings once or twice a day. Also the light would be a problem making people stop for no reason on the timer. So the police stop traffic and let them out of the parking lot. My son’s high school has this. Young drivers you know. The officer being there halting cross traffic allows those teachers and students driving out of the lot to turn right or left. The officer can assess the backup of the cross traffic and make the students wait for cross traffic to have a turn and then the officer will stop traffic again to let another rounds of student cars exit. There are less accidents blocking traffic that was as well. I’m in Illinois. For drop off and pick up there is usually an officer in a squad car directing traffic the 10-15 min before and after school. There can be 2000 students and 100 teachers and more staff at a school. That is a lot of buses and cars. They have also done this for extra large school functions like dances. They would also keep a squad and officers on site throughout for that. A funeral home might also stop traffic to get that first vehicle out for a funeral procession. Course the cars following have the right of way even if the light changes and the rest of cars have to honor it. I have never seen police do this for a business like UPS, but I see the sense in it. School safety differences would also be an interesting yet depressing video.
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Some US companies also may pay although for a lot of jobs remote work is the future. That is the best commute.
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@alistairblaire6001 I turn right and go around, sometimes turn around in a parking lot. I plan my errands to avoid that.
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@wzukr does Austria host the World Cup? Another sporting event? Don’t you think the sports teams playing or the company that is the athletic entity running the sport would have to pay the government since it will cost the government to host the event? Or for Eurovision, the song contest? Does it not bring out unusual crowds behaving a bit off?
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@wzukr you forgot suspects shooing at people, trying to stab people, trying to hammer people trying to run over people, trying to shoot police officers. That does not fit the Hollywood narrative so not in movies as much. Do you have wolves, coyote, bears, gators, rattlesnakes? There are many reasons people have weapons here. I thank God don’t have need for one. Not that a gator sighting means you shot it. There are other ways. More police have tasers than before. When they first came out though some very unhealthy individuals died from the jolt so took a while to catch on. Not good for the heart if you are 300 pounds and under 21. Clearly the preferred method of disabling an armed person from a distance provided no other humans in physical contact or close proximity. I would rather be shot than someone throw acid on me or get hit with a blade of some size or drive into me like you hear happening in England. Armed men enter a school and kill or take hostage students in many countries but we have to scroll very far down the screen on the news page to read about that. You live in utopia. A traffic stop and a domestic call are the two most dangerous calls for a police officer to respond to from the well being of the officer and other civilians at the scene. A bank robbery would be a walk in the park. Their presence at schools is meant to be a feeling of safety. The officer made it easier to turn left out of the lot. You know gangs won’t be that close to the school. Their presence at a school dance is meant to put everyone at ease who is supposed to be there and make think twice those who should not be there. Not to arrest 5 people for drinking per officer. A fair number of guns used are not legal but stolen or gotten across the border. A fair number of police officers never discharge their weapon. What on earth do your farmers do to scare off predators or when they need to put an injured animal down in a hurry? We have had person with a gun at Walmart but we also had a different person with a gun take out the person with a gun at Walmart as well. If Russia invaded Alaska by land we would not have people training with cardboard cutouts. They have the real thing. People hunt and eat because of guns. Even President Biden earlier in life had guns. I thought Europeans love him? We also have a volunteer army. We have not needed a draft since 1973. You need people exposed to guns in a more positive and useful way for people to sign up. Not all have had experience, but many have. The one thing I do not understand is the shoot and ski competition at the olympics. Why would shooting and skiing need to be a combined skill, except in a James Bond movie? So Baldwin hates guns and campaigns for candidates against yet gets paid 6 figures for holding one in a movie. Hollywood is goofy and I think they need to tone it down and use lasers and things that are not reality based or avoid violence entirely. I’m sure you have crime shows with no weapons.
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@wzukr actually we all have a duty to aid one another. Self Defence extends to the defence of another. Good Samaritan laws ask an ordinary person to give reasonable aid to another. The entire point of the police is to serve and protect. You are quoting something fake I’m afraid even if you see it repeated several places online. The writer did not actually read any Supreme Court decision. Let alone understand any Supreme Court decision. They saw it was quoted by others and got lazy and just stuck it into an article. One major thing to point out that most people don’t realize is the Supreme Court rules based in the argument the lawyers make. They site a particular section of the constitution and various court cases and the Justice rule typically are very narrow as to whether the issue is actually covered by that clause. That is why the court can rehear yet another case on marriage or employment a few years later, sometimes with the same Justices, and rule an entirely different way without being contradictory. There is no special contract between officers and a specific individual. Because of that a person can’t win a law suit against officers or the city because they were victim of a crime and police failed to identify it or stop it. Those writing quote that police don’t have a duty to protect nonsense concern a case regarding that. Not that a police officer can not act to protect a person. That is the entire point of local law enforcement. There is actually not a heroic view of police the last decade or so. Constant attacks. And fake news that the police have no mandate to act at all is disgusting and just meant to cause chaos. The Supreme Court has various law enforcement between the court itself and personal protection sadly with threats against them and I can assure you their intent is to protect the Justices and the Justices expect to be safe because of their service. A few dozen officers died on 9/11. Not all fatalities are because of a firearm. Police have gotten hit by cars during traffic stops and responding to traffic accidents. There are a fair few dangers in the world. This fascination on guns is a bit concerning. The times a suspect does not survive a police interaction is because they had a weapon on them (tried to use their car as a weapon to run over someone) or full of drugs. Drugs in system cause alternative behaviors. A person high as a kite isn’t going to do as commanded, the police will sense a threat and respond accordingly. The idea that the only person who should be allowed a firearm is the person standing in front of an officer is disgusting. There are risks to having one illegally or legally.
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@wzukr the reason the constitution has it is cause of England, not to shoot those indigenous to North America. While a colony England took the guns from people it deemed against England. And rightly to be fair as there was revolution. Guns by individuals mainly used for security and for harvesting animals from the wild at that time. The idea of not having a King unique for the time. The public wanted to make sure whatever the government turned into it could fight back just like the colonists did to separate from England. Because England took the public’s weapons they worried an out of control federal government might do the same so put protections on the public being able to keep their weapons as a right. It was to keep the government accountable to the public. The right is not absolute. You can’t deny or remove from a person for an arbitrary reason. The having guns is an amendment to the constitution. That amendment doesn’t mention God. It is one of the original 10. We have had later amendments. Changing voting age. Make women’s voting part of the constitution. Abolishing alcohol. Then a few years later repealed that amendment. I’m sure during that time wondered why people in Austria had a God given right to alcohol.
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@wzukr yes there were shells from chemical weapons found. A number of our soldiers had health effects from deal with them. The Iraq people executed the guy. Not America. Germany just annexed Austria. I wish the US and rest of Europe did something then. And when Japan went into Korea. Iraq has never been a colony or territory of the US. Nice try. You would have been Russian without the US, will be Russian soon. Good luck with that.
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@wzukr those cases seldom are from deaths caused by guns. You do not have business partners and spouses poisoning the other? Does anyone kill anyone accidentally or intentionally there? Do all murderers turn themselves in?
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