TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law Tuesday a transportation measure that designates 124 miles of State Road 80, from State Road A1A in Palm Beach County to U.S. 41 in Lee County, as the \u201cPresident Donald J. Trump Highway,\u201d expanding a string of Trump-related road namings in South Florida.<\/p>\n
The bill, SB 628<\/a>, includes 16 road and facility designations, including a coast-to-coast highway in South Florida for President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n The same bill also renames the capital city airport as \u201cBobby Bowden-Tallahassee International Airport,\u201d one of 16 road and facility dedications included in SB 628. DeSantis centered Tuesday\u2019s bill-signing event on Bowden, the longtime Florida State coach, even as the measure also created the new Trump highway designation.<\/p>\n The statewide SR-80 designation follows a separate local effort in Palm Beach County. In July 2025, county commissioners voted 7-0 to ceremonially rename a four-mile stretch of Southern Boulevard<\/a> between Kirk Road and South Ocean Boulevard as \u201cPresident Donald J. Trump Boulevard,\u201d along the route from Palm Beach International Airport to Mar-a-Lago. County officials said that the change would not affect addresses, 911 response, or official maps.<\/p>\n That local tribute was followed by a January 2026 dedication ceremony at Mar-a-Lago attended by Trump, who called the renaming an \u201camazing gesture\u201d<\/a> and said he was honored by it.<\/p>\n See also: 8 busted in Florida raid after complaints of heavy traffic at suspected drug den<\/a><\/p>\n SB 628 now extends Trump\u2019s name to a much larger corridor. Rather than the four-mile stretch leading to Mar-a-Lago, the law applies to a 124-mile span of SR-80 running coast to coast across South Florida from Palm Beach County to Lee County. The law takes effect July 1.<\/p>\n State Rep. Meg Weinberger (R-Palm Beach), who led the charge on renaming the Palm Beach International Airport to Donald J. Trump International Airport, is on board with this latest change.<\/p>\n “I think it’s perfect. I think it’s absolutely well-deserved,” Rep. Weinberger said. “President Trump has fought hard for our country, and I’m certainly grateful. People like me who really never imagined being involved in politics, he speaks common sense, and it’s important to have people that are driven with their heart and truly care for causes and the people. I think it’s quite an honor and he deserves it.”<\/p>\n The designation follows another move in late March honoring President Trump by renaming Palm Beach International Airport as \u201cDonald J. Trump International Airport.\u201d Gov. DeSantis signed a bill on March 31 approving the name change. The change also includes a new airport identifier<\/a>, \u201cDJT,\u201d and directs the appropriate federal agencies to update all references to the new name.<\/p>\n Other dedications in the measure include \u201cWarrior Sacrifice Way\u201d in Escambia County, \u201cDickey Betts Memorial Highway\u201d in Sarasota County, and \u201cPresident John Thrasher Memorial Boulevard\u201d in Tallahassee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law Tuesday a transportation measure that designates 124 miles…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-233697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}