Further evidence that renaming a street after the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will cause a battle more than any other name. This latest joins the following (I'm sure there are others not chronicled here):
People objected to renaming Stonewall Street because there was a possibility that the street was named after Stonewall Jackson, whose widow lived in Charlotte. According to the article, however, there is no proof that this was the reason. Perhaps they just protected a street named for a nice stone wall?
On a related note, how does a street become a boulevard? Change the sign! In my mind, a street and a boulevard are very different things. According to Wikipedia it "usually consists of a wide, multi-lane arterial divided thoroughfare" while a street is sometimes a pedestrian street, alley, or a center-city street too crowded for vehicles. The bottom line is that renaming a street boulevard makes is sound more dignified.
