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Robert F. Kennedy Bridge: why need for renaming?

The Robert F. Kennedy Bridge is no better at passing through rush-hour traffic than it was a few weeks ago when it was still known as the Triborough. This I know from behind-the-wheel experience. But then nobody claimed a name change would make it work any better.

Forty years after Kennedy's assassination, this monument to 1930s engineering, if not aesthetic beauty, was rechristened for a...

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