https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/partial-list-of-things-named-after-the-monumental-robert-c-byrd
With his passage, the nonogenarian West Virginia senator (may he rest in peace) leaves behind a proud legacy of pork — and an entire state filled with things named after himself and his wife. WVNS has the most comprehensive list I’ve seen anywhere. I’ll excerpt the transportation portion:
The Robert C. Byrd Appalachian Highway System Robert C. Byrd Bridge linking Huntington with Chesapeake, Oh. Robert C. Byrd Drive between Beckley and Byrd’s hometown of Sophia Robert C. Byrd Expressway near Weirton Robert C. Byrd Locks and Dam across the Ohio River in Mason County Robert C. Byrd Inter-modal Transportation Center in Wheeling.
Note that the complete list is about four times as long as this. Perhaps now they’ll rename the state after him.
More than 50 buildings built with funds from US taxpayers directed to West Virginia are named for either Byrd or his wife, Erma Ora Byrd (née James).[2] Several transportation projects named for Byrd have gained national notoriety, including the Robert C. Byrd Highway.[8] Also known as “Corridor H” of the Appalachian Development Highway System, the highway was dubbed “West Virginia’s road to nowhere” in 2009 after it received a $9.5 million earmark in the $410 billion Omnibus Appropriations Act.[8] The highway received another $21 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.[8] Critics argued the traffic on the highway was too light and the cost too high for the project to continue construction until its proposed completion in 2035.[8] The State of West Virginia argued the highway was necessary as “an ideal evacuation route for Washington, about 100 miles away, in case of an emergency.”[8]