Manchester? Oh, it's Monterey.

I'm going through Tennessee this week on my way to Dallas from Ohio.

Paddle faster, I hear banjo music.

+1 subby. Excellent!

""That's really the biggest indebtedness right now," he said. "A lot of these matched grants weren't even budgeted. I don't want to damped the positive with the negative. But we are in the 21st century, and there's certain things you almost have to do to bring people in."

Almost? Sorry, a bunch of lights doesn't make me want to stop by. It just means I can see the roadsigns better.

Not much chance of renting a canoe there.
However, it is a pretty part of the country thru there, off the Cumberland Plateau.

Wow, they really have no lives. I wouldn't live in a town like that if you paid me to.

You guys are never gonna let Ned Beatty live that down, are ya?

Tennessee gains electricity.

Choose next advance:
- Electronics (15 turns)
- Sanitation (14 turns - Recommended)
- Combustion (22 turns)

Note to Mayor: A million bucks for streetlights? You're already on the Interstate! Think of the poor yokel towns that ain't!

Oh yeah, they dried up and blew away.

Still, I'd be ticked if I was a local taxpayer; double so, if I were a local astronomer.....

See, when I think Tennessee, I think "southern comfort" in the form of attractive women with funny accents. Then I start hearing banjo music and worry.

Monterey is on the plateau so canoe rentals aren't exactly in high demand there.

The two exits are half a mile apart and the gas stations/BK/McDonald's light up one of them enough. The other one hosts the Hardees which I got an awesome BE&C biscuit at one time and isn't lighted well.

Here's what you should have spent the money on: an extra two state troopers a year to ticket those f'in trucks who get in the left lane going up the plateau from cookeville and do 35 mph.

Seriously, subby, if this happened in Polk County your title might make sense.

ThinWhiteDuck: I wouldn't live in a town like that if you paid me to.

Actually, that area is beautiful. You might not want to live there, but it's a great place to vacation, especially in the summer and fall.

/likes banjo music

"People with families are not going to get off at a dark exit in a little town they don't know," said Monterey Mayor Richard Godsey in between potshots at the spitoon. "Hellfar, I think it's a critical part of bringing people off the interstate to spend their money here with us. We're all excited about it."

That area is gorgeous: the Western edge of the Cumberland Plateau drops down steeply to the Highland Rim, forming endless coves of streams, rivers, caves and wildlife. But Monterey is a little hole of suck. The chicken factory is the biggest employer by far. Every time I drive by that place on the interstate I try to imagine how many chickens are dying on the other side of the wall at that moment.

/Mmmmm, chicken
//my 2nd green, woot

in order for people to spend time and money at your little town you have got to have something exciting to do at your town other than looking at the new freeway lights you have just put in.

Hey, I live in Cookeville. Crazy. Monterey does suck, though.

mrredskin: Seriously, subby, if this happened in Polk County your title might make sense.

Hey, man, you gotta go for the cheap laughs if you want a green. I still can't belive this shiate went green. But yeah, Monterey is hardlie the Sequatchee.

ooh the county my parents live in... not surprised it made fark

Oh, they put lights in? From the headline I thought someone posted a "Last Gas Station for 200 miles" sign.

Ned Beatty Jr. was an unfortunate choice for celebrity spokesperson.

That was an orgasm of alliteration.

$600,000. 43 lights. Did anyone realize that is FOURTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS per light?

FTA "The project will be paid from a $600,000 Tennessee Department of Transportation grant, which requires a 50-percent match by the town. That $300,000 in funding will come out of both this year's and next year's budget. Money has already been borrowed by the previous administration to pay for some portions of the work, although Godsey would not specify how much that was.


WTF since when did putting up some street lights cost that much??

I could see $14,000/light if they are the 150'? tall lights that I have seen at some intersections. They would need to buy them, transport them, crane rentals, trenching, electricians, surveying, engineering for the foundations, digging the holes, building a foundation, and power. It's not like you can go to Home Depot and have At Home Services do the install.

I worked at a factory where a 4' wide stainless steel conveyor cost $1000/foot, not counting the belt, motor, head roller, foot roller, motion sensor, or installation.

/Deliverance was filmed in Rabun County, GA, not TN. You're off by about 150 miles.
//I-40 isn't as scenic as I-24
///I'd be more worried about Wilkes County, NC on I-40 than any place in TN.

-1 Subby. if you're trying to reference Deliverance then TFA would have to be about some location in Georgia, where the movie took place. It was filmed there and in South Carolina. Nary a Tennessee locale or mention in the film. And you wonder why Southerners hate the Northerners?

"People with families are not going to get off at a dark exit in a little town they don't know," said Monterey Mayor Richard Godsey. "I think it's a critical part of bringing people off the interstate to spend their money here with us. We're all excited about it." (from the Article).

From me:

WHAT!?!!11111

I LOVE getting off to get gas in dark shadey towns. If its warm enough I'll even take my shirt off and just wear a tank top, then I'll sag my pants so my ass crack shows, and unzip my fly.

All that makes for an exciting experience filling up my tank and getting a coke!

Will someone try to bash me and or rape me, and will I get to kick some redneck ass? (probably never will happen,)

Will I get propositioned? (once, declined, I make enough money, at least for now).

Will I get head from the hot bicurious white trash boy running the register? (twice)

or Will I just be treated like a normal customer (usually this).

But, you never know!

All these possibilties make dark and scary gas stations in unknown anonymous towns all kinds of fun! (God, I hope my dad doesn't read fark, not because of the gay sex, but because of the trying to pick fights with rednecks).

$14,000 a light is actually pretty reasonable. Don't forget about the extra wiring to connect them, the cost of labor and materials, and the 6 guys standing around watching.

This town has nothing on Ticlaw.

/Obscure?

Come to Ripley, Tennessee! We have few lights!

And we have attractive women with funny accents!

Beautiful scenery!

Liberal marijuana laws (we don't care - meth is the big problem here!)

Peace and quiet!

And we have the DSL all the way out to Chisholm Lake!

/not that I would know anything about that town.

//we also believe that the world began at 0900 17SEPTEMBER 4004 BCE.

/// All-You-Can-Eat really is great here! Just ask the walking earthquakes!

TheGreatGazoo:
//I-40 isn't as scenic as I-24


I have to disagree with that. At least in TN. I-24 from Nashville to Memphis is one of the flattest, most dull drives in the whole state. 3 hours of nothing.

I-40 from Nashville to Knoxville is really scenic however, with mountains and lots of hills. The Sept. and Oct months through there can rival anything even the northeast has for changing leaves and such.

Ignore what I say. I am a fool.

"That's really the biggest indebtedness right now," he said. "A lot of these matched grants weren't even budgeted. I don't want to damped the positive with the negative. But we are in the 21st century, and there's certain things you almost have to do to bring people in."

damped? indebtedness? this guy is the mayor?

Elbarfo: I have to disagree with that. At least in TN. I-24 from Nashville to Memphis is one of the flattest, most dull drives in the whole state. 3 hours of nothing.

What you say? I-24 from Nashville to Memphis? Last time I looked, I-24 runs from Nashville to Chattanooga. I-40 runs from Nashville to Memphis.

Obnox

Nice headline good work

I don't think the install costs are so bad as the $1000 per month in electric. They'd better get a bunch of extra folks stopping by to make it worthwhile.

Besides, if you're a motorcycle rider, 70 from Cookeville to Monterey is much more fun. This area is beautiful.

/No longer some guy in fla.
//Some guy in TN.

This kinda reminds me of the way Cornishmen used to use lights to lure ships to their doom on the rocky coast so they could slaughter the sailors and plunder the cargo.

Yay Cookevegas!

You'd get a better response by adding a net-worthy exit name.

It's close to Cookeeville, which is close to Belt Buckle, which has the TN Fire and Codes Acadamy.

We used to go to cookeville and get shnookered at night after training.

Thank FSM. I was driving through Tennesse a while back, at night, and every time my GPS said "exit coming up" I was usually suprised. Couldn't see for shiat beyond my headlights.

Fortunately the turns are well marked with reflectors.

Elbarfo: TheGreatGazoo:
//I-40 isn't as scenic as I-24


I have to disagree with that. At least in TN. I-24 from Nashville to Memphis is one of the flattest, most dull drives in the whole state. 3 hours of nothing.

I-40 from Nashville to Knoxville is really scenic however, with mountains and lots of hills. The Sept. and Oct months through there can rival anything even the northeast has for changing leaves and such.

This is true. I've driven between Chattanooga and Nashville more times than I care to count. The only real big deal is Monteagle Mountain, and that's not much. Nashville to Memphis is boring as hell. Nashville to Knoxville is awesome in the fall. Drove I-40 on our way back from our honeymoon in the middle of October and it was amazing. So much orange, yellow, and red it looked like the mountain was on fire.

I-40 from Nashville to Memphis is bad. I-55/57 from Memphis to Chicago is worse. 500 miles of flat nothingness followed by 50 miles of traffic.

ok hardin quick ? why would you pass through the boro to go drink in cookevegas, seriously two extra hours of driving and passing a boatload of bars

drucee: I-40 from Nashville to Memphis is bad. I-55/57 from Memphis to Chicago is worse. 500 miles of flat nothingness followed by 50 miles of traffic.

Try I-10 San Antonio to El Paso. 500 miles of flat nothingness without even crossing a state line. At least the speed limit's been raised to 80.

Word to the wise: slow that ride down when moving onto the plateau. Practice due diligence anywhere near Cookeville.

Otherwise - it is a nice drive.

// Except for truckers who use their tractor-trailers as weapons.
// And god help you if you get behind a caravan from WVU. (Left-lane city.)

UNC_Samurai: Manchester? Oh, it's Monterey.

Don't talk bad about Manchester, now. I grew up there. Besides, they've got FOUR interchanges, not just one like Monterey has.

It's definitely a retarded mindset, thinking just because they've got lights along the interstate that traffic will get off there. Perhaps if Monterey actually had something for motorists to stop for, they might get the traffic.

Elbarfo, you fail; I-24 doesn't go anywhere near Memphis. Having driven on both I-24 and I-40 many, many times, I'd say that I-24 from Nashville to Chattanooga is far more interesting to drive than I-40 from Nashville to Knoxville. Far too many trucks on I-40 to make it enjoyable, and the area from Murfreesboro south to Chattanooga is definitely scenic. I-40 from Knoxville to Asheville is a nice trip though.

$600,000. 43 lights. Did anyone realize that is FOURTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS per light?

It's actually $21,000 per light. The town had to throw in $300,000.

Either way, those numbers are crazy

Alien Robot: drucee: I-40 from Nashville to Memphis is bad. I-55/57 from Memphis to Chicago is worse. 500 miles of flat nothingness followed by 50 miles of traffic.

Try I-10 San Antonio to El Paso. 500 miles of flat nothingness without even crossing a state line. At least the speed limit's been raised to 80.

Hey! That is my deer lease. Keep the Fark Off!

Erwin, Tennessee - the town that gives "Hung like an elephant" an entirely new meaning.

Erwin earned some notoriety in 1916 when the only known public execution of an elephant in Tennessee occurred in the community.

hempheh: Hey, I live in Cookeville. Crazy. Monterey does suck, though.

I used to date a chick from Cookeville before she went full lesbo. I remember having some great spaghetti at the Happy Days diner when we visited her folks. Big chunks of Parmesan cheese nestled inside the pasta and a big fat sourdough bread loaf. That place still there? I haven't been there in fifteen years.