Orlando Unveils ‘President Barack Obama Parkway’
- Posted on October 11, 2011 at 9:29pm by
Tiffany Gabbay
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President Barack Obama will now live in infamy on Orlando streets as the city unveiled the first portion of a roadway project bearing his namesake.
Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony that showcased President Barack Obama Parkway, near the Mall at Millenia.
WKMG Orlando reports:
Phase I connects President Barack Obama Parkway north of Conroy Road to Metrowest Boulevard, a mile-and-a-half stretch that includes lighting, sidewalks and on-street bike lanes. Shingle Creek Trail, used by pedestrians and bicyclists, was also extended.
Dyer said 150 jobs were created in Phase I of construction, which cost $10.5 million. The city will hire 150 more workers when Phase II begins, he said.
“One of the things that we have done in the city is some of the capital construction projects that we have the funding for that have been on the books, we moved them forward — expedited them — so we could create the jobs when we need them,” Dyer said.
According to WKMG’s report, upon completion, the parkway will extend from Conroy Road to U.S. Highway 441 in Apopka, a nine-mile stretch.
Ironically, Obama was in Orlando for two separate fundraisers — one of which was held at prominent attorney John Morgan’s house — the day of the parkway’s unveiling.
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Comments (208)
dadsrootbeer
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 10:04pmJust love Orlando is celebrating the President for spending taxpayer money to create temporary jobs.
Report Post »Dahart
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 10:22pmNo we are not……only the Leftist Mayor is
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 10:02pmit goes right to cuba
Report Post »dealer@678
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 10:37pmDead end street. Honey give my side arm
Report Post »FEMALL
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 10:52pmActually goes straight to a fundraiser at Charlie Crist’s new law firm: Morgan and Morgan “For the people but not so much for Tort Reform”
O=Orlando Rush Hour Gridlock
Report Post »CatB
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 10:56pmI have been to that Mall .. .I won’t be going on this street … EVER! In fact I will avoid the area .. so I don’t end up on it !!! Good going Orlando .. what’s next ?? Hugo Chavez Way?
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 11:01pm“What something is, is what it extends”. Obama is a wreck so…. don’t drive on any road named after Obama.
Report Post »wellhangingchad
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 11:39pmLord, I hate being from Flori-duh! I can’t stand going to Orlando. It is a close 2nd to Miami as worst place in the state. The only thing that makes o town any better is that you can still speak English there. Just remember the crazies they elect in Orlando. “The republicans healthcare plan is for you to die and die quickly”! Charlie Crist is a liberal shady lawyer working for a very shady law firm. Good luck Pam Bondi on cleaning up personal injury fraud in this state. I can point you in the right direction any time you like.
Report Post »Bluzie
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 11:45pm@Femall
Lmao, yeah I forgot about seeing Crist on my TV talking about his new job with Morgan. I‘m not too sure about Morgan’s motto “For the People” anymore……..still begins with F though.
Report Post »Abongo_Obama
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 11:56pmWhat did this street do to deserve such infamy?…My brother’s name is a shame. The street must be re-named “Barry Soetoro Road to Hell”
Report Post »coindexter
Posted on October 12, 2011 at 1:31amwhat…they couldn’t fit hussein on that street sign.
Report Post »demint.disciple
Posted on October 12, 2011 at 1:59amwhat’s the cross street on phase ll , fast and furious way ?
Report Post »Servant Of YHVH
Posted on October 12, 2011 at 3:08amWell so Orlando created a new place for the patriots of America can go and have a place to take a cr*p out in public. Before long, instead of it being a parkway, it will be the tallest and smelliest hill in America.
Report Post »Kevin The Elder
Posted on October 12, 2011 at 4:47amThis is a one-way street leading to a dead end at 2012 Republican Way. There are no counter streets on the right; the only way off is to make one of the many sharp left turns.
Report Post »IntheKnowOG
Posted on October 12, 2011 at 8:55amNext time I’m over there, I know where to take a leak……..
Report Post »imreddog
Posted on October 12, 2011 at 11:58amI’ve got some news for the idiots that think that government jobs are meaningful jobs. EVERY GOVERNMENT JOB OR PROJECT is a drain on the economy! The money to fund these projects or wages or salaries require more tax to be taken from the hard working citizens of the several states. It may be true that the government project/job may be necessary (like roads & bridges), but it is also true that the money for them has to come from taxes because the government does not have any money except for what it takes from the people. Government projects/jobs should be kept to a minimum. If you think that the government is benefiting the economy when it provides government jobs, please go to the nearest insane asylum and have yourself evaluated…. because you are an idiot.
Report Post »Yeah_Buddy
Posted on October 12, 2011 at 1:50pmWhere does it intersect with Marxist Way?
What is on right of sign? Is that an island or icon for end of earth?
Did the economy car run into the ditch on this road?
Report Post »notmeatglennbeckdotcom
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 10:00pmRemember when Orlando was conservative?
Hey it’s another “Amuse”ment Park in town.
Report Post »chazman
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 10:06pm…OBAMMY Parkway? Gawd … what a bummer … I foresee … sinkholes …
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 10:13pmThe road to oblivion, perdition, devaluation.
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 10:16pmGay Pride Parade will gleefully dance about President Barack Obama Parkway.
Report Post »Grandmadar
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 10:33pmHah, the road to perdition…etc. Quite funny but truthful. We have a Martin Luther KIng Bridge in our city and a Martin Luther King Pkwy. It is good to remember people this way. But an Obama parkway. A stark reminder of a very bleak time in our history.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 10:34pmThat is one road I WILL AVOID even if I have to drive through Georgia!!!
Report Post »beullar
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 10:40pmI live in Orlando and I just heard about this today….I think I am going to throw up. I’ll have to find a new route to the mall so I can avoid “Odumbo trail”.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 10:50pmI wonder why they didn’t name it Barack Hussein Obama Way?
Report Post »marine249
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 11:05pmCHAZMAN
Report Post »the right word is a$$—–
PKama
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 11:16pmHere in Looney Tune Land ( California ) they already have a school named after THE ONE…BHO Academy in Oakland, California. Most of the students are from the welfare and illegal immigrants infested neighborhoods. To these people…BHO is God. I wonder what they will say after it goes down in the history books that BHO turned out to be the first Socialist, Communist president of the United States of America. My guess is they will not care at all. They have no pride, nor do they love this country much. As long as they receive their freebies from the government, they do not care if Satan himself runs the country. May God help us. It’s going to be a long rough ride ahead of us. God bless the USA.
Report Post »dreardon31
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 10:00pmThe Road to Serfdom
Report Post »JohnQTaxpayer
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 10:12pmHe drives up and down his road running over taxpayers
Report Post »honestynow
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 10:12pmNow that’s funny.
Report Post »Secular Conservative
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 10:17pmNice. I like that.
Report Post »INOGAWD
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 10:19pmWait till the EPA does it’s Review, they’ll put the kabosh
Report Post »on this Project…it will interfere with mosquito habitat..
RLTW
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 10:19pmDREARDON31
Report Post »What an aped analogy for the highway to He!!. Me I’d rather have a red hot piece of angle iron shoved up my a$$ then drive on the musloids highway
1casawizard
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 9:58pmWe beat Orlando out in this fabulous race of having a b.o. pkwy. It goes to a crematorium and a landfill is at the end of the road. Our sign isn’t a green and pretty one, tho.
Report Post »Marengo Ohio Patriot
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 9:56pmby the way… for you mentally challenged…
Report Post »that 70,000 bucks is just to CREAT the job…
it does not include the hourly wage/materials…etc…
im just sayin………
majorsco
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 9:54pmPeople with significant accomplishments earn having a street named after them. What has Obama accomplished other than pushing the country into bankrupcy and downgrading the US credit rating.
Report Post »liv4jumpin
Posted on October 12, 2011 at 8:14amThe location is ironic/appropriate… connecting a neighborhood of crime ridden govmnt subsidized apartments to THE most crime ridden part of Orlando… the Orange Blossom Trail (OBT)/441 corridor.
Report Post »The BHO legacy… connecting freeloaders and petty thieves with hard core criminals. Way to go B-H-O!
DSTSS2010
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 9:54pmIt’s a shortcut to Benedict Arnold Turnpike.
Report Post »moonlight on the bay
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 10:06pmGood one!
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on October 12, 2011 at 4:33amGood one…..I bet it is a toll road
Report Post »Marengo Ohio Patriot
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 9:54pm70,000 bucks per job….
Report Post »what a deal mr/mrs taxpayer!!
912er
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 9:53pmIt only has one LEFT lane that heads straight off a cliff…
Report Post »1casawizard
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 10:03pmThe county don’t want you to take that road, and they don’t have to worry about people stealing the signs.
Report Post »Agnes
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 10:07pmGreat comments!
Report Post »raecampus
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 9:52pmWhat a joke…road to nowhere!
Randy in Orlando
Report Post »TheGreyPiper
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 9:52pmHow long before the sign is vandalized?
And one more good reason for me to stay the hell outta Fla.
Report Post »Grandmadar
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 10:35pmHolder will want to steal it for his prison cell…just sayin’
Report Post »The Third Archon
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 9:52pmHilarious
Report Post »PunditPawn
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 9:51pmBah, a simple resolution would rename that stretch of road “Taxpayer Theft Pkwy” in a heartbeat.
Report Post »cassandra
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 9:51pmI believe it did create over a hundred jobs because I’m sure it took 15 union workers 2 weeks with the cost of thousands of dollars to put up one sign
Report Post »RichNGadsden
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 9:49pmSounds Mickey Mouse to me. LOL, what will happen “IF” Obama is exposed as the fake he really is?
Report Post »AOL_REFUGEE
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 9:46pmIt’s an already-existing dark and stinky, blind alley; the only construction required is hauling in the dumpsters.
Report Post »ACLUHater
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 9:48pmSome never get off the nipple…
Report Post »kentuckypatriot
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 9:50pmOnly 150 jobs? That’s it? And then they will be in the unemployment line when contruction is finished. And what happens when the commie LOSES next year ( if we have an election ), will the name then be changed to Stinky BO Parkway?
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 9:41pmIs it a One way road to Cuba?
Report Post »mr.goodvibe
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 9:44pmThe best so far! Love it.
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 9:45pmActually, I heard it was the road that goes to the city dump.
Report Post »mils
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 9:50pmstraight from the wonderful warm sandy beaches right off into the deep end of the water
Report Post »BigM4U
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 9:41pmWhat a joke! Obama was at a “prominent attorney’s” house for a fundraiser? John Morgan “For The People.” A prominent ambulance chaser who is helping to raise everyone’s cost of living. Parasites! The both of them are not much more than a tapeworm on the gut of society!
Report Post »Dalady
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 10:47pmAmbulance chaser ala John Edwards? Nuf said.
I am 53
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 9:41pmit should be a cul de sac
Report Post »Grandmadar
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 10:37pm@Isles…and a round and round we go!
Report Post »Tankertony
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 9:39pmI can’t stop laughing.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 9:38pmIt had better be asphalt.
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 9:51pmMay ve paved with Bull Hockey.
Report Post »DSTSS2010
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 9:51pmNo, they used Bush’s-phault!
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 9:58pmDSTSS2010 that was clever.Wish I had thought of it ahah.
Report Post »mr.goodvibe
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 9:36pmLike the man? It will fall apart after a conservative gets on it.
Report Post »ColoradoMaverick
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 9:35pmI guess Orlando is a good place for this highway to be named after Obama. I guess the people there are F’in goofy!
Report Post »Banana Republic Capitalist
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 10:30pmNot all of us are!
Report Post »PaulAnn
Posted on October 12, 2011 at 9:58amNo, not all of us is right. What a crock of sh@t!!
I will have to figure another way into that mall….(IKEA and the Apple store are there).
10M to name a road after a failing president in a basically Republican state…REALLY??Who made this decision?? No one asked me.
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 9:35pmPathetic.
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