"When Jim Davis hears someone lament the absence of an interstate highway in the Shoals, he points out that the region has a major transportation corridor."
""That's our interstate. It's just like a major highway," Davis said as he pointed to the Tennessee River flowing past his office at Wilson Dam."
That's TimesDaily staff writer Dennis Sherer's opening salvo in "Cheap Ride; River transportation more affordable than rail, truck".
Cheap ride, cheap shot.
Dennis blathers on an on about how comparatively inexpensive it is to ship using water than ground.
Yada, yada, yada...
Okay.
SO WHAT!
How does the river benefit the Shoals?
So bazillions of dollars of goods flow through this area. So what?
How does the Shoals DIRECTLY benefit?
That's the burning question on most folks minds!
Here we are with an asset that is, in some places, a mile wide, and stretches from Mississippi to Georgia & Tennessee. And, it cuts right through the heart of the Shoals, dividing, in some sense, and uniting in another.
But to determine how to use it to our industrial advantage has thus far escaped modern Florentines, whose lower elevation on the river has distinct advantages over their tri-city neighbors in Colbert county.
Dear God, please, please send a visionary leader to the Shoals!
(edit=title change: "How does the TN River benefit the Shoals?" to "TN River benefits the Shoals?")
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