Same connection to Reagan as Ridgewood's to Lincoln, Sherman, Grant or Sheridan....

None

Rednecks and morons loved this guy. Northwestern NJ is still full of rednecks and morons. This makes total sense...

Calls for austerity are only ever meant to apply to some, and never those making the calls.

The point is always for the politicians pushing the name change can associate themselves with the person they are changing the name to. It's like one great big taxpayer funded commercial.

As far as I know, Ronald Reagan already has at least three highways and a tollway, not to mention an airport, the usual library, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_275_(Ohio–Indiana–Kentucky)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_State_Route_126
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_14_in_Illinois
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan_Memorial_Tollway#Ronald_Reagan_Memorial_Tollway
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan_Airport

Possibly, but if you fall asleep while driving your Reagan down the Reagan highway, you might just crash and have to have Reagan ambulance service take you to Reagan hospital. If you're lucky and survive you won't have to be buried in Reagan cemetery, but can instead take a vacation, taking off aboard a Reagan47 from the Reagan National Reagan on your vacation to Reagan.

Art - plenty of comics and late night hosts have made jokes at Reagan's expense. You obviously think that Ronnie was/is some kind of deity, and should be on Mt. Rushmore. Under Reagan, the gov'mnt expanded and the national debt greatly increased. So, stop with the false outrage. Nothing is done in the country due to Republican stonewalling and underhanded tactics.

Reagan gave us "trickle-down economics" or at least popularized the idea. This is the proposition that if you overfeed the horse sufficiently, there will be enough undigested oats in its droppings to feed the field-mice.

Snarky little pissants who wouldn't last a day without their iPhones and lattes. There are no real men anymore. Just whiny snivelly trophy boys who want nothing but to complain and be served. Baaa. There all soft. They wouldn't know respect if it bit em in the ass.

Art Elmers - you are obviously a sick, depraved person with a one-sided mentality with a closed mindset. please go to the hospital and get treatment.

You really wanted the US to strike the USSR? Wow.........

Waving willie waved to me a few times, sad to not have that wave anymore. Naming something in his honor would be very appropriate.

GlenRocker - I am exercising my right to free speech. You are obviously a narrowminded pinhead who falls to the far right. I can imagine you hugging Fathead Fakehair Trump.

hey now! hahahaha RidgewoodGuy just got outed!

GlenRocker- really, is the best that you can do? how lame. you poor, patheic, feeble-minded wimp

Carey,
If you are so uncomfortable with homosexuality, then why did you name yourself after Cary Grant? (BTW There is no "e" in his name.)

Chris, unlike Reagan, MLK changed things for big minorities in many cities.

And unlike all those streets named after MLK and a whole host of other people, places, things and events, the highway that will be named after Reagan won't change names every time it crosses city boundaries. That IMO is a good thing. Having the same street change names a half dozen times in a ten minute or so drive just b/c you cross from one town to the next is real annoying.

and RR unlike MLK, liked Jelly Beans. Makes about as much sense as what the other commenter posted

If a minority was BIG, wouldn't it be a majority?

No, because I'd consider a 20% minority big.

I personally don't care what it is called. Let's just call this road the exact same thing for the entire length of the road like they should be doing w/ every single road. Pretty dumb to have roads change names multiple times over a stretch of a few miles all b/c you go from one town to the next.

Just one opinion,
It's just that I believe strongly in a small government that operates on the bare minimum of costs. To change the highway's name might cost something, and who is supposed to pay for it? I'm sick and tired of people trying to spend away other people's (aka. "my") hard earned money. These Ronald Reagan Highway people are nothing but a bunch of communists and socialists, the lot of them. They should get jobs and build their own road and stop asking for handouts, robbing us responsible ones of the money we worked hard for. the problem with socialism is you eventually run out of other people's money. And don't these people live in Salem County? Why should I care about what they want? I live in Bergen county. I don't owe them anything. Their interests are not my responsibility. Its not the job of government to give them stuff. To redistribute wealth. I'm on the side of the taxpayers. In fact, there shouldn't even be such things as taxes. The founding fathers didn't intend for there to be.

Averting the Cuban Missile Crisis is a big one Luca. I have no problem if a stretch of road near his old house was named after him, but why is it necessary to name some stretch of road in NJ after him? Bill Clinton was a great president, I don't see anyone asking anything to be named for him.

So now we are "crediting" JFK for being caught with his pants down? Why don't you look into what Reagan's comments were at the time as he watched JFK retreat from Castro and abandon freedom for all Cubans.

The Cubans chose Castro, he didn't just take over the country by himself. Cuba is much less oppressive than China, and yet we do business with China but don't do business with Cuba. I have been to Cuba before, and its a lovely place.

Billy-Not-His-True-Name has never been to Cuba, and he knows very little about what went on there in the past and goes on there now, including how repressive the Castro regime has been for over 50 years.

Ask yourself why some of the Cuban people have risked life and limb attempting to escape from the island country over the past fifty years.

Part of the deal Kennedy made with Khrushchev to resolve the removal of the Soviet Union's missiles in Cuba during the so-called crisis was that 1) The United States would remove its missiles in Turkey (pointed at the Soviet Union) and 2) The United States would never attack or invade Cuba.

This averted the so-called crisis; but if Kennedy only knew at the time that the U.S. arsenal of intercontinental ballistic missiles far out numbered the Soviet Union's arsenal he could have blown the Soviet Union back to the stone age, and included Cuba in the mix as well. Castro would have had to resort to shining shoes to survive.

There are so many roads, highways, bridges, airports, etc. named after Kennedy because in Democratic-controlled venues that is how it works. Ronald Reagan, a Republican, has very little political support in New Jersey; hence the big stink about Route 15.

There is a Clinton, New Jersey, but it has an appropriate Red-Light District with numerous women named Monica, Paula, and Gennifer working nights as first class employees.

Milly, you must be the most immature person I have ever spoken to. I've been to Cuba 3 times actually. You really think that we should have blown Russia up? What kind of moron are you?