Posted on 02/23/2017 3:22:57 PM PST by PBRCat
Should it be the Barack Obama Expressway or the Barack Obama Tollway?
Democratic state legislators seem to agree that the hometown state senator made good should take his place alongside Ronald Reagan, John F. Kennedy and others immortalized in Illinois highways.
Two Illinois state representatives have competing plans to rename different Illinois highways after Obama.
On Jan. 26, state Rep. Robert Martwick, D-Chicago, submitted House Joint Resolution 0017 that would designate “the entirety of Interstate 294 of the Dwight D. Eisenhower System of Interstate and Defense Highways as the “‘President Barack Obama Tollway,’” state legislative records show.
The move to designate all of Interstate 294 after Obama is in “recognition of President Barack Obama’s dedication to public service as an Illinois State Senator, U.S. Senator from Illinois, and President of the United States of America,” the resolution reads.
The same day, state Rep. La Shawn Ford, D-Chicago, announced he is drafting legislation that would rename the majority of Interstate 55 in Illinois as the “Barack Obama Expressway.”
According to a statement from his office, Ford will propose renaming the stretch of the expressway from the Tri-State Tollway to East St. Louis.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...
East St. Louis is an appropriate place for an Obama highway.
Help him do something useful for once in his life, make him a speed bump.
Should be in Hershey, PA!
The road to Islamabad would be more appropriate.
The road out of DC ... in honor of him eventually leaving.
How about a major road to the border.
Illegals can travel down the Failed President Lane on the way home.
It can flow in the reverse direction, to be politically correct.
It should be most of Route 66, TODAY! (most is not used, now)
How about the ‘Garden State Parkway’ where a Former Governor of New Jersey used it to have sex with other males...
So this interstate leads to nowhere just like his p Residency ?
LOL, perfect!
Let it be a toll road or some road in south side Chiraq.
I don't think that number has been used yet so it is available.
Don’t they normally name public places for someone after they have died????? What the heck????
Isn’t there an I-666 in New Mexico or something?
Though it would be more appropriate in Indonesia or Kenya.
I wouldn’t want to travel on any road with this clown’s name on it.
He had a lot of stuff he touched go bad....there might be a list.
It ought to be called “the Highway to Hell.”
But hey, it is all about creating “shovel ready jobs” to stimulate the economy!
"Construction of I-180 was completed in 1969.[1] The freeway was built primarily to connect Interstate 80 to a new Jones & Laughlin steel plant built in 1965 at Hennepin, IL.[3] However, the steel plant closed soon after I-180 was built, and did not re-open until August 2002. I-180 is one of the least traveled interstates in the nation, serving 1,950–3,600 vehicles per day as of 2013.[4]"
How about renaming THOMSON FEDERAL PRISON to
AUSP OBAMA
https://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/tom/
They should name a roundabout after him. The Obama roundabout.
It really should be a road to know where, or a road that ends with a cliff and a 60 foot drop
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