Martin Luther King, JR. Way opens on this week in downtown Spokane. (Dan Pelle SR photo)

It may have taken more than four decades, but Spokane drivers will be able to motor down their own Martin Luther King Jr. Way for the first time this week. The city is hosting an opening ceremony for King Way on Thursday at 11 a.m. near the Riverpoint Campus east of downtown. The public is invited. The event at Pine Street on the newly built roadway is planned as a fitting reminder of the legacy of the slain civil rights leader, who died in 1968. King’s favorite dessert was said to be pecan pie, so the city is springing for 200 servings of pecan tartlets to sweeten the ceremony and commemorate King’s legacy, said Ann Deasy, city spokeswoman. The $3.8 million project has taken more than a year to build. It provides an extension to Riverside Avenue east of Division Street/Mike Prager, SR. More here. (AP file photo: In this Aug. 28, 1963, black-and-white file photo Dr.  Martin Luther King Jr. addresses marchers during his "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington)

Question: Should a road in Kootenai County be named in honor of Martin Luther King Jr?