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Bus Terminal Will Honor Rosa Parks
Jan 24, 2006 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Bus Terminal Will Honor Rosa Parks Fort Myers, FL (January 24, 2006) Mayor Jim Humphrey, on behalf of the City of Fort Myers, the Lee County Commission and the Florida Department of Transportation, invites the public to attend the dedication of the "Rosa Parks Transportation Center" at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, February 4, 2006, in honor of the anniversary of Rosa Parks' birthday. The ceremony will be held at 2250 Peck Street, Fort Myers, just east of the Fort Myers Police Department. Local and state dignitaries will unveil the new sign and hold a short program. Florida Department of Transportation Secretary (District One) Stanley Cann will be one of the featured speakers, along with members of the Fort Myers City Council and Lee County Commission. Rosa Parks, known as the "mother of the civil rights movement," was the brave woman who refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955. She passed away in 2005 at the age of 92. She was the first woman to lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda in Washington, DC. The Intermodal Transfer Center, as it is known now, was opened in November, 2000, as a hub for all forms of public transportation in Lee County, mainly the Greyhound and LeeTran bus lines. The City of Fort Myers donated the nearly two acres of land for the Center and the Florida Department of Transportation contributed $2.3 million of the cost. Lee County built and operates the center. |