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Is your freeway "the 5", "I-10" or "80"?

We call them highways or interstates around here. But when giving directions we just use the number.
 
I-10 for me, but I live in Houston, TX so idk what yall are talkin bout with the five, I do know 880, 580, and highway 1 in california. I drive those often when I am out there
 
Around Boston MA...

I-90 = "The Pike"
I-93 = "93"
I-95 = "128" for the loop around Boston and "95" for southern MA
Rt-9 = "Route 9"
Rt-1 = "Route 1"

Those are the major roads I find myself on out here... I know there are others on here from the greater Boston area and perhaps they'll add some more.
 
It's "I-84" for the main interstate, and "Connector" for the stretch of interstate that connects (get it??) to downtown.
 
In my general driving area I drive on (some more than others):

I-90: "The Pike" (in Mass/Connecticut) or "The Thruway" (in New York)
I-87: "The Northway", north of Albany, "The Thruway" south of Albany and north of Westchester, and the "Major Deegan" south of Westchester or "87"
I-684: "684"

and the non I-# roads:

The Hutchinson River Parkway: "The Hutch"
The Taconic State Parkway: "The Taconic"
among many other NYC area named highways.
 
Agreed with the others here in Sacramento.

My other home in Vegas, we call the 215 Beltway "the 215", Interstate 15 "I-15", and US hwy 93/95/I-515 "US 95". They're all the same highway until they intersect I-15 at the Spaghetti Bowl.

My hometown (Omaha) calls US hwy 6 "Dodge street", I-80 "Interstate 80", I-680 is "I-680", I-480 "I-480", and I-29 "Interstate 29". Go fig.. :confused:

BL.
 
Around here, highways with numbers get called their numbers (no 'the') and interstates are called I-xx. So State Rd. 3 is "3", State Road 9 is "9" and Interstate 69 is "I-69".
 
mkrishnan said:
In Detroit, we referred to them by a mix of number and name -- like the Lodge (John C. Lodge Freeway) was always called that way (and almost never called M-10). I-94 and I-96 were sometimes called that way and sometimes called by their names. I-75 I usually called I-75.
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Can verify this; state freeways are recognized by the 'name' as in 'the Lodge' and 'the Southfield' and almost never by their numbers.

In my home town on the other side of the river the local crosstown xway is by name E C Row. The Macdonald-Cartier Freeway from here to Toronto is almost always just 401. It is definitely 'The 401' when widening out to close to 20 lanes in TO.
 
+1 Coloradoan that uses "I" when referring to interstate highways.
However, there are some disturbingly accurate titles that can be used in place of the actual number, which locals will immediately recognize as the intended highway.
example: I25 can also be called "the parking lot" or "death row". :rolleyes:
 
SactoGuy18 said:
Here in Sacramento, CA, we just call it the "5", "50", "80", and "99". :)
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Indeed. When I used to live in Sacramento it was just called the "50", etc. I moved down to SoCal and now when I come back up to visit family I call it "the 50" or "the 80" without even realizing it.
 
born and raised in arizona and we definately put "the" in front of everything
the 8, the 10, etc
 
The interstate is I-40, the other two are either I-85 and I-95 or just 85 and 95. I-40 can also be just 40, but not as often.

State highways are just "54", "55", "64", and "70".

I guess we don't bother with fancy names here.
 
101, 880 (or "The Nimitz"), 238, Highway 17, Highway 24, Highway 13, Interstate 80.
 
In my area, you just say "390" for the big one, "I-86" for the smaller one. In smaller locales, you just call it by the route number (eg: 15, 15a, 246, 256, 21, 20a, 5&20, etc)
 
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