Virginia transportation board agrees to let Arlington rename Jefferson Davis Highway
By Patricia Sullivan Patricia Sullivan Reporter covering government, politics and other regional issues in Arlington County and Alexandria Email Bio Follow May 15 at 12:01 PM Almost 100 years after Confederate sympathizers named a major Virginia road after the president of their lost cause, Arlington County won approval from a state transportation board to rename Jefferson Davis Highway.
The county has tried for years to change the road’s name but has been stymied by the General Assembly, which held the power to block requests made by counties, officials believed. But Del. Mark Levine found an exception that allowed the statewide transportation board to act, if requested by the county. Attorney General Mark R. Herring agreed in an advisory opinion in March, and one month later, Arlington made the formal request.
Stacey D. Stewart, president of the March of Dimes, which relocated to Arlington late last year, said the highway’s name is “divisive and a daily reminder of our nation’s dark and shameful history . . . a painful and oppressive past.” She, like others, said the Confederate president’s name does not reflect the region’s values.
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