I-25 Was Renamed the "Ronald Reagan Highway" Yesterday

[CO Liberal]

They put up signs along the stretch that goes through El Paso County (which includes Colorado Springs). I saw one this morning on my way to work.

Now poeple will get on the interstate and forget where they're going.....

[Hawkeye-X]

1. WTF!

I'm going to have to call my congresswoman and demand that it change back to I-25.

NO WAY IN HELL COLORADO WILL EVER SUPPORT ST. RAYGUN.

Got a link?

I'm going to have to write a letter to her as well.

Hawkeye-X

[ComerPerro]

21. At least he isn't president anymore

Meanwhile, Fucking Bush as a school named after him already.

Sound familiar??? Saddam airport, Saddam Boulevard...


This is how Republicans build their legacy of lies.

What we need to do is to push to name EVERYTHING after Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton.

[CO Liberal]

22. Here's a Link

I-25 NAMED RONALD REAGAN HIGHWAY

Signs Dedicating Interstate 25 In El Paso County Unveiled

There'a a new highway in Colorado, sort of.

Interstate 25 in El Paso County is now also known as Ronald Reagan Highway.

Colorado Governor Bill Owens and State Senator Doug Lamborn dedicated the road in a ceremony Tuesday afternoon.

Lamborn and State Representative Lynn Hefley Introduced the legislation naming the highway during the last session.

Owens says the tribute to Reagan is fitting, "I'm just very proud that Colorado is honoring President Reagan in this way. He did a lot of wonderful things for our country and i think it will be a nice way to remember him."

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http://www.krdotv.com/DisplayStory.asp?id=6455

[goobergunch]

28. Lynn Hefley

Related to Congressman Joel "I have a horrible comb-over" Hefley (R (hyper-spending cutter)-CO)?

[kentuck]

33. Lynn Hefley

Lynn is the Mrs of Joel Hefley. Been in the Legislature (House) for 3 terms. She'll be term limited, unfortunately he'll never be. The stretch of highway is aptly named Ronald Reagan, since it is a mess. Been tore up for months, years who remembers? been so long ago since they started upgrading, reconfiguring the damn thing. The entire I-25 running along the Front Range looks like the Road to Basra-the highway of death. Posted by Kentuck's wife.

[Rashind]

2. Ouch...

Low blow. I feel kinda bad for hating Reagan since he has no idea what horrible things he's done, at this point.

There's also a Ronald Reagan Highway in Cincinnati, OH. I would imagine the country is peppered with them. People seem to love these champions of fiscal conservatism who double our national debt while in office.

[T Wolf]

3. but he knew

what he was doing while he was doing it. He wasn't a total vegetable while in office.

[Touchdown]

4. Only in Col. Springs! UGH!

:puke:

I guess I'll have to find another route from Denver to get to Santa Fe next month.

Isn't this place supposed to be seismically active? Where's Colorado Springs' "Big One"?

[Hawkeye-X]

10. Here's a way to avoid Colorado Springs

Take the I-70 east to Limon, then head south. You can avoid I-25 completely up until New Mexico (I think) -- that's US 40 or US 287.

Hawkeye-X

[kentuck]

12. I just returned last week.....

Take 285 to Buena Vista,then 285 all the way south but HWY 159 if you want to go thru Taos and then Hwy 68 to Santa Fe...

[AntiCoup2K4]

18. Shouldn't US Highway 666 (as seen on the map) be the Reagan Highway?

It would seem to fit better....

RONALD 6
WILSON 6
REAGAN 6

:evilgrin:

[CO Liberal]

25. HIghway 666 Is No More

It was renumbered a few months ago......

[AntiCoup2K4]

34. Let me guess.... The Freepers whined until they changed the number?

Can't have any "Satanic" highways now, can we? :evilfrown:

[Emperor_Norton_II]

41. Actually, I think it was to cut down on sign theft

I mean, wouldn't you like to have an authentic Highway 666 roadsign for your house?

[Cha]

5. I was back in Colorado from '90 to '92 and I called the people

who drove on I-25.."mindless speedsters"...that road is Deadly! I can speak from first hand experience!

[janx]

14. It is really bad, Zidz.

Especially around the intersection of I-25 and Arapahoe.

[EV1Ltimm]

38. i work near there,

so i get to deal with it every morning on my way in.

[underpants]

6. Why did the chicken cross the Ronald Reagan Highway?

Becasue that's where the shredder was.

[angka]

7. a hahahahaha

my folks live in the springs, i'll have to call and give them some shit for this...

[soupkitchen]

8. And is the right lane the slow lane?

Since the right has everything else backwards, this seems almsot appropriate.

[The_Gopher]

9. you drive a few miles and forget where you are.

.

[oasis]

11. Pictures and statues of Saddam everywhere in Iraq. The Ayahtolah

all over Iran. Reagan's name and likeness splattered everywhere over America.

:puke:

[janx]

13. Did Owens do this? Who did this?

?

[CO Liberal]

19. The El Paso County Commissioners, I Think

Virtually every elected official in El Paso County is a Republican.

ON EDIT - It was passed by the State Legislature, according to a story I just found on-line:

http://www.krdotv.com/DisplayStory.asp?id=6455

[Emperor_Norton_II]

42. At least it's only in El Paso County

I suspect the Lege knew better than to try and name it the Reagan Highway in the metro area. Between that and T-REX, they'd be utter laughingstocks until the end of time.

Yrs stuck in traffic on the Valley Highway (!*@!*@!*@ 25/Evans exit),

[BigBigBigBear]

15. Creepy

I'll be heading that way next Friday, on our way to Mexico.

Wait till my wife sees this - she'll go non-linear.

[librechik]

16. now, instead of driving from Denver to CO Springs, cars "trickle down"

hee hyuk...

[angka]

23. i've always preferred 'tinkle down'

which seems more accurate...

[CO Liberal]

24. Ronnie Trickles Down Nowadays, Too......

:-)

[curse10]

17. Not that surprising really, El Paso County is definately the most

conservative county in the state. At least it's not through the entire state. Could you imagine that happening in Denver? People would flip out, I hope.

[CO Liberal]

20. If I Had a Paintball Gun....

.... I'd take a little target practice every morning.

[EV1Ltimm]

37. odd that you mention that...

i used to be sponsored by a paintball shop down there, so i had to drive from denver to the springs every sunday to play...

i guess i'm glad i was asked to leave the team a couple of months ago so i don't have to drive on that god-forsaken stretch of road ever again!

[soothsayer]

26. heard someone call washington national "alzheimer's airport"

today

[goobergunch]

29. I just call it

Washington National Airport.

[BBradley]

27. My family and I refuse to pander to his "legacy"

It's just plain ol' National Airport to us. Does he really need anything else named after him? I guess it'll help him remember his own name. :evilgrin:

[laura888]

36. I'll never call it "Reagan"

...it'll always be "National Airport."

[kodi]

30. is it a pock marked rambling road with no sense of direction or purpose?

that road, wherever it is should be the RR Highway

[philosophie_en_rose]

31. Say hello to my new friend, FrankenReagan.

Soon to follow, the Mississippi Reagan.

[KharmaTrain]

32. Doesn't This Road

Keep veering to the right until you find out you haven't gone anywhere at all? Kinda like NASCAR racing.

[Octafish]

35. Pruneface changed the name of Cape Kennedy.

Shortly after his assassination, Congress renamed Cape Canaveral in honor of President Kennedy, the man who set the nation's course to the Moon. When the stooge Reagan and his CIA handler George Bush stole office in 1980 (GOOGLE: October Surprise, Iran), one of the first things they did was change the name of Cape Kennedy back to Canaveral.

In dishonoring the memory of the Liberal JFK, these small-minded bed-wetting goons epitomize what the modern GOP-kkk-NAZI konservatism is all about. Heil Bushler.

[jobycom]

39. Should call it Ronald Reagan LowWay. nt.

nt

[MaidinVermont]

40. I don't see the big deal

Sure we all hate Reagan since he is a repub and not a dem but is the bad press worth it? What if all the MLK streets were contested? We can't all be right all the time and others can't always be wrong all the time.

[jobycom]

43. MLK good, Reagan bad

There is a right and wrong, you know. A person who fights for the rights of all people is generally good, whereas a lying scumbag who starts wars, funds both sides of wars to keep them going longer than necessary, and who betrays the laws of his own nation to fund terrorism that results in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, including Americans, and undermines genuine attempts at Democracy is generally not good.

Naming a street after Charles Manson would be frowned on, and he personally never killed anyone, and he is responsible for a few hundred thousand fewer deaths than Reagan.