Dallas city officials are working to change freeway signs to reflect a move made by city council in 2021.<\/p>\n
That year, the Dallas City Council voted unanimously to rename a portion of Lamar Street<\/a> to honor Botham Jean, a man shot to death in his own apartment<\/a> by an off-duty Dallas police officer in September 2018.<\/p>\n Street signs have been changed to reflect the renaming of a portion of Lamar Street to Botham Jean Boulevard. However, freeway signs on I-30 and I-45 still call the road Lamar Street, according to the city.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Changing the freeway signs is estimated to cost $300,000, according to the city.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is something Council Member [Adam] Bazaldua has consistently pushed for over the years,\u201d Dezareigh Walls, a spokesperson for Bazaldua, said in an emailed statement.<\/p>\n City officials said they are still working to identify the funds to make the change. They did not provide a timeline for when this could occur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas city officials are working to change freeway signs to reflect a move made by city council in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[74288,4519,4606,102,105,104,103,74287,74289],"class_list":["post-185833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-botham-jean","tag-city-council","tag-city-officials","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-city-council","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-freeway-signs","tag-lamar-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}