TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A Florida senator has filed a invoice to alter a stretch of U.S. Freeway 41 generally known as the Tamiami Path to the “Gulf of America Path.”
The bill filed by Sen. Joe Gruter, R-Sarasota, comes following an government order from President Donald Trump calling for the Gulf to be renamed — at the least for these residing in the USA.
Google Maps and lots of U.S. federal and state businesses have since complied with the order, adopting the time period “Gulf of America.” However the Tamiami Path may very well be the primary main roadway in line for a reputation change.
Named for the 2 main cities that it connects, the Tamiami Path spans 284 miles, beginning in Tampa after which crossing by way of Naples and the Everglades earlier than ending in Miami.
In accordance with the invoice’s textual content, it will rename “the portion of U.S. 41 between S.R. 60 and U.S. 1 in Miami-Dade, Collier, Lee, Charlotte, Sarasota, Manatee, and Hillsborough counties.” The Division of Transportation would then be directed to erect markers designating the path’s new identify.
The concept for the trans-peninsula freeway took place in 1915 as a method to improve tourism in South Florida. It took a number of years and plenty of cash, however the opening of the Tamiami Path in 1928 was thought of a monumental occasion.
Gruter’s proposed invoice additionally would require state businesses, county faculty districts and constitution faculty boards to make use of instructing supplies that replicate the identify “Gulf of America.”
The invoice might be up for debate throughout the upcoming legislative session, which begins subsequent week. If handed, it will take impact on July 1.
