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Since by now many major cities have created or changed a street to Martin Luther King Drive and I have drove through many and some are very sketchy, a few cute ones and some are just industrial neighborhoods that surround this street.
What is the Martin Luther King Drive like in the cities near you?
Should that represent his vision or accomplishments?
Do some of them abbreviate his name to MLK Drive?
Very interesting thread idea. It's funny, because I was thinking about how terrible it is that our MLK Boulevard basically cuts through the worst neighborhood in the entire county and one of the few exclusively black neighborhoods. It's an insult to his vision to me. Yet go to Miramar or Pembroke Pines and it's a clean middle class community where blacks dominate or have a major presence (but don't make a majority) and theres no MLK Boulevard. Just typical suburban Florida names like "Flamingo Road" and "Pines Boulevard". Progress is a truly integrated middle class neighborhood (not exclusively one group but a working blend of cultures), and thats where a MLK Boulevard should run through.
St. Paul: It's called Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard. It's almost shorter than its name, only about 3 city blocks long. The only buildings on it are the State Capitol and the State Office Building. Used to be named "Constitution Avenue".
Very interesting thread idea. It's funny, because I was thinking about how terrible it is that our MLK Boulevard basically cuts through the worst neighborhood in the entire county and one of the few exclusively black neighborhoods. It's an insult to his vision to me.
The same is true with the MLK in Jacksonville, Florida. I'm not sure about the vision thing....perhaps the residents in those areas were the first to approach the city council with a petition to rename an existing road or new road being built near them.
MLK in Seattle is ok. Its a few miles long. The southend of it has a new light rail u/c in the middle of the street. Looks pretty nice. It will start running in 09.
MLKing skirts around the downtown area of Baltimore's west side. It is used by tons of commuters and it is wider than most streets in the city. There are lots of new developments on both sides of the street. There used to be projects lining the west side of it but they have been torn down and replaced with mixed housing.
There was a movement to rename King Road to Martin Luther King Road, but that never passed. It's predominantly Mexican with some Vietnamese. The city's most notorious neighborhood is Story/King, but the area has improved a lot.
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