{"id":21132,"date":"2026-03-12T08:44:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T12:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/?post_type=wfsu-news&#038;p=21132"},"modified":"2026-03-12T09:41:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T13:41:04","slug":"bobby-bowden-tallahassee-international-airport-gets-florida-senate-approval","status":"publish","type":"wfsu-news","link":"https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wfsu-news\/bobby-bowden-tallahassee-international-airport-gets-florida-senate-approval\/","title":{"rendered":"Bobby Bowden Tallahassee International Airport gets Florida Senate approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A road running across south Florida would be named after President Donald Trump and Tallahassee&#8217;s airport would add legendary Florida State University football coach Bobby Bowden to its name under a bill that passed the Senate on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The bill (SB 628) would dub 125 miles of State Road 80 in Palm Beach County as &#8220;President Donald J. Trump Highway.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The measure was amended by Sen. Corey Simon, R-Tallahassee, a former FSU football player under Bowden who won a national championship in 1999, to add the late coach&#8217;s name to Tallahassee International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, sponsored by Sen. Don Gaetz, R-Niceville, directs the Department of Transportation to put up markers for several roads across the state, from Escambia County to Jacksonville and south to Broward County.<\/p>\n<p>One of those roads includes a portion of College Avenue between Copeland Street and South Monroe Street in Tallahassee, which will be named &#8220;President John Thrasher Memorial Boulevard&#8221; after the former FSU president and Republican House Speaker.<\/p>\n<p>Another road renaming would designate State Road 295 between Duncan 8 Road and Gulf Beach Highway in Escambia County as &#8220;Warrior Sacrifice Way&#8221; after three servicemembers who were killed in a terrorist attack at Naval Air Station Pensacola in 2019 \u2013 Mohammed Sameh Haitham, Joshua Kaleb Watson and Cameron Scott Walters.<\/p>\n<p>The vote was 34-3 and the bill now heads back to the House. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2026 WFSU<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[],"tags":[1136,1135],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.3 - 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