Councilors mull Jefferson Davis Highway change (VA)

[struggle4progress]

By Chris Teale

City councilors showed a willingness to consider changing the name of Jefferson Davis Highway, but said they want to hear residents’ views before making a decision.

And a letter from the Virginia Attorney General’s office earlier this year indicates the city could change the name of the street without approval from the Virginia General Assembly.

The city’s ad hoc advisory group on Confederate memorials and street names recommended the change for Jefferson Davis Highway, which is the moniker for U.S. Route 1 in the city limits from Potomac Yard into Arlington County, where the name continues.

The group issued its final report late last month, and also recommended the “Appomattox” statue at Prince and South Washington streets not be moved and that a wholesale renaming of city streets named for Confederate figures not be undertaken ...

http://alextimes.com/2016/09/councilors-mull-jefferson-davis-highway-change/

[Raine1967]

1. Most people around here just call it Route One.

I certainly would not be bothered with a name change at all.