I guess the massive personal property tax they charge just isn't enough.

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FirstNationalBastard: oldernell: Isn't there a UFIA highway in Tenn? I remember the story from several years ago.

It's official. A two-mile stretch of Tennessee highway has been adopted by "Drew Curtis' TotalFark UFIA." Link goes to a photo of the sign (new window)

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Didn't they tell TN that it stood for "Uniting Friends in America"?

The cost of the new signage will probably be more than the amount they receive for changing the name. Will this require changes of address for people living/working on those roads??

Sounds like typical political thinking - half assed at best.

elvisaintdead: I can think of a little, sucky town in NC where this would be ideal........

Farkuay Varina?

remus: FirstNationalBastard: oldernell: Isn't there a UFIA highway in Tenn? I remember the story from several years ago.

It's official. A two-mile stretch of Tennessee highway has been adopted by "Drew Curtis' TotalFark UFIA." Link goes to a photo of the sign (new window)

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Didn't they tell TN that it stood for "Uniting Friends in America"?

Yes, they did. :-)

First class.

I wonder what different kinds of trees they have there.

I'd love to drive down the Fark Yew HWY all the way to Hell Cir.

OK, just take the Comcast highway and get off at the Comcast expressway exit. Turn right at Comcast drive and proceed until you reach Comcast street.

ComaToast: OK, just take the Comcast highway and get off at the Comcast expressway exit. Turn right at Comcast drive and proceed until you reach Comcast street.

All of which are open sometime between the hours of 8 and 5, although they won't tell you exactly when, and more likely than not you'll have to take a full day off of work to connect with them.

/amidoinitrite?

I live near the Lemon Party Avenue.

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lol red states lol

Anybody else misread the headline as the 'Governor of Vag...'?

But they can't change the name of all the Lee Highways in every town in Virginia!

Wouldn't that be UP the UFIA Hwy?

ZAZ: chuckufarlie

In Massachusetts we often give roads ceremonial names without forcing a change of address. .

US 95 -- known to locals who've been here a while as "128", but only sporadically signed as such, making getting directions from older locals "interesting" if you're a new transplant. AKA "America's Technology Highway" for a while in the late 90's, but I think all those signs have been plowed over. You could probably find one if you poked around in the brush and poison ivy on the roadside in Needham...

Bob McDonnell is an idiot. His plan is stupid and he should feel stupid. He and the majority republican local government have spent their time regurgitating republican talking points and making retarded laws. He has little or no respect for women's rights and I suspect he believes science is just like, an opinion man.

I'm not suggesting we should pull him out on the street, cover him with tar and feathers, and then throw him in the river....but....may we should?

The roads will all be called McDonnell's

Wow. This is a brilliant idea. Advertising for the companies, revenue for the state. All voluntary. McDonnell just created a market.

Maryland has something like this. You can name stretches of certain roadways. But I think you have to go and pick up trash a few times a year or some such with them.

chuckufarlie: The cost of the new signage will probably be more than the amount they receive for changing the name. Will this require changes of address for people living/working on those roads??

Sounds like typical political thinking - half assed at best.

good point fellow farker. signage costs should be absorbed by the customer. for addresses, they should leave the 'real' addy and just add the sponsored tag. similar to how a road on a map may have both a local town street name along with a CR (county road) number.
IMHO this offer should have a life limit of 5 or 10 years. it enhances value in the bidders eyes and makes future retention or contract more likely to see cost increase = higher ROI for community.

Doc Johnson Sex Toys Boulevard

UseLessHuman: Bob McDonnell is an idiot. His plan is stupid and he should feel stupid. He and the majority republican local government have spent their time regurgitating republican talking points and making retarded laws. He has little or no respect for women's rights and I suspect he believes science is just like, an opinion man.

I'm not suggesting we should pull him out on the street, cover him with tar and feathers, and then throw him in the river....but....may we should?

You sound like a "Yellow Dog Democrat".

UseLessHuman: Bob McDonnell is an idiot. His plan is stupid and he should feel stupid. He and the majority republican local government have spent their time regurgitating republican talking points and making retarded laws. He has little or no respect for women's rights and I suspect he believes science is just like, an opinion man.

I'm not suggesting we should pull him out on the street, cover him with tar and feathers, and then throw him in the river....but....may we should?

So, because you disagree with his politics, you think he should be tarred, feathered, and thrown in a river? Do you think that level of discourse somehow precludes you from falling within the category of idiot?

Now, I like Bob McDonnell. I think he is moving Virginia in the right direction, but I'm not certain he has really thought this plan through. I know companies are always looking to find new advertising avenues (ha), but how effective would this really be? I mean, I drive in Virginia every day, and one thing is clear; people here do not pay attention to signs. But all joking aside, I'm not sure I believe that companies will spend their money on this idea. It may just waste taxpayer money.

Again, that being said, at least he is looking for new ideas, which is more than can be said for the governor prior to him.

Virginia huh? Ok..


/getting ready for it

I've often wondered about how these signs are legal?




And these too

Guidette Frankentits: I've often wondered about how these signs are legal?

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And these too

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WHY would they not be legal???

Bureaucrat's comments to the UFIA sign application: Unremarkable.

ZAZ: chuckufarlie

In Massachusetts we often give roads ceremonial names without forcing a change of address. Limited access highways don't have residences and nobody cares about the name. Interchanges can get names, sometimes more than one name. In cities intersections are named, sometimes with different names for opposite corners. US 6 has at least three names: "route 6" (what people use), "grand army of the republic highway" (main federally-supported official name that some people know about but nobody uses), and a gift to a local politician whose name I forget now (nobody knows or cares).

this idea seems more than ceremonial.

KrispyKritter: chuckufarlie: The cost of the new signage will probably be more than the amount they receive for changing the name. Will this require changes of address for people living/working on those roads??

Sounds like typical political thinking - half assed at best.

good point fellow farker. signage costs should be absorbed by the customer. for addresses, they should leave the 'real' addy and just add the sponsored tag. similar to how a road on a map may have both a local town street name along with a CR (county road) number.
IMHO this offer should have a life limit of 5 or 10 years. it enhances value in the bidders eyes and makes future retention or contract more likely to see cost increase = higher ROI for community.

Doc Johnson Sex Toys Boulevard

paying for the signage is going to be so expensive that it will scare most potential customers away.

Let's see:

1) It doesn't affect all roads or bridges, just state-owned infrastructure, and even then not all of that
2) It is a new revenue stream we desperately need for Virginia transportation
3) The revenue is going to be provided by companies or the super-rich
4) The poor, middle-class, and even upper middle-class won't have to be taxed to provide more trasportation revenue.

No wonder the Fark Dependents^TM in this thread hate this idea - it's not a tax.

At least he has a plan. Tim Kaine came in with a Republican-controlled legislature and tried to ram through higher taxes and then cried like a baby when he wasn't allowed. Then he simply gave up. Much like farkers in this thread, if he couldn't pass a tax, he didn't know what to do.

yeah.. because its far better to have travelers never exit the highway in your town, simply because they wanted something to eat and didnt want a crapshoot about whether there was a burger joint .5 mile on the right, or 10 miles on the right.

Why stop there? Sell naming rights to lawmakers. George W. BigOil or Hillary Rodham Healthcare as examples.