The City of Raleigh has just announced that it will rename one of it’s primary corridors after Mayor Charles Meeker. Western Boulevard, known as an efficient thoroughfare for oil-burning cars, will be renamed Meeker Parkway.

A City of Raleigh traffic engineer, Stu Pedasso, reported that the city also is planning a traffic circle where Western Boulevard becomes Martin Luther King Blvd. A soft-spoken debate will take place this summer as to whom will be honored in sculpture at the circle’s center.