Street names are administrative details that almost nobody notices until they change.
A is an official statement about who a city considers worth remembering.
Most cities carry names given by a state that no longer exists.
Removing them is defended as correction and attacked as .
Both descriptions can be accurate for the same decision.
The practical costs are rarely mentioned in the argument and fall unevenly.
Every business on the street reprints documents, and every resident updates .
Elderly residents describe a loss of that is genuine and impossible to price.
Cities that handled well made three choices consistently.
They the street rather than the city, since the people affected are specific.
They paid the administrative costs from a central fund.
They kept the old name visible on the sign, in smaller letters, with the date of the change.
The third measure does most of the work, because it converts an into a record.
A then reads two decisions: the original one and the later judgement about it.
History taught that way is more than either name standing alone.