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

Here in my part of Ohio everyone I know just refers the freeways as either
"I-##" or "##" if its a State Route, we say "SR-##" or again "##" which I guess you would have to know the nearby freeways to know which is a State Route and which is the Interstate.
 
LumbermanSVO said:
How long until you guys get around to putting up mile marker posts every mile? You know, like every other state. ;)
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Let's be reasonable now. Caltrans can't be expected to label all of their roads. :p

Maybe count call boxes instead. Those are fairly evenly spaced except in mountain areas. :D
 
los angeles is the capital of freeways

i take the 405 aka "the mississippi river of LA."

the 73 (toll road of the OC)

the 105 and 110, "take you to LA"

the 5, is called the "long snake"

15 "toll to las vegas"
 
leomac08 said:
los angeles is the capital of freeways
(nicknames here)
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To be totally honest with you, I've never heard any of those names. True, taking the 105 to the 110 does take you to LA, and the 73 is a toll road, but there are other toll roads (241, 261, 133, 91 FasTrak). And there's no toll on the 15 to Las Vegas.

You're right about one thing though: LA really is the capital of freeways. :D
 
aloofman said:
That's a weird nickname. Boats move on the Mississippi!
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yup!, cars in the 405 move like boats.

zephead said:
To be totally honest with you, I've never heard any of those names. True, taking the 105 to the 110 does take you to LA, and the 73 is a toll road, but there are other toll roads (241, 261, 133, 91 FasTrak). And there's no toll on the 15 to Las Vegas.

You're right about one thing though: LA really is the capital of freeways. :D
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i know, the 15 is not a toll, but it's the only way that a person from LA can go to vegas! :D

and yup, LA is the capital of freeways!!!!:D:D:D:D:D
 
In NC it's 85, 40, 74, or if you're in the mountains, it's 'the four lane' because there's only 1 four lane in the mountains. Haha rural probs.
 
Here in Hobart, Australia, all of our highways are referred to simply by name (i.e. Channel Highway, Southern Outlet, Brooker Highway, etc.) Though according to Apple maps, they have numbers too! You learn something new every day :p
 
Azmordean said:
I've noticed traveling in California the "the" phenomenon you refer to. This was mainly in the bay area and the central coast. Particularly "the 101" and "the 5" (I guess since these are the primary north-south routes). I've never encountered that anywhere else though.

Here in Virginia, we seem to use just the number. "Take 81 North" or "Traffic on 95 is awful today." I've never heard formal highway names used, except for 495, which, of course, is often called "the beltway."
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We southern Californians use "the" a lot too.
 
Aaon said:
In New Mexico I always say "I-25" and "I-40." Here in the Chicago area though people seem to refer to freeways by name, like "The Indiana Toll Road" instead of I-80/90, or the Dan Ryan Expressway, etc.
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Interesting. In Michigan we just call it "I-94" but when I've visited Chicago I hear more people say "Dan Ryan." We also say "I-75" and "I-96" but we just say "696" and instead of "I-696". For I-275 however I've heard people say with and without the "I"

As for San Francisco, I'm still kind of new here, but I hear most people just say "280" instead of I-280.
 
Near Philly, I-476 is called "The Blue Route" even by traffic reporters. Highway planners used colored markers to map out various routes and the blue one was chosen.
 
in chicago we have random names that i never understood:
The eisenhower
the dan ryan
the kennedy
the edens
the jane adams tollway
the stevensen
the reagen
the bishop ford
the tristate
 
Dug up from 5 years ago but I'll bite.

Here in my area of NY, we either say 'I-87', '87' or by a name that's been given Northway for the Adirondack Northway (87 from Albany to the Canadian border) or Thruway for 87 from NYC to Albany and 90 from Albany to Buffalo.
 
When I lived in NY, it was:
The grand central parkway
Belt parkway
L.ie
Bqe

Etc..

In the city I've very seldom heard anything referred to by number.

In Florida I hear both:
I-95
91 / turnpike
826 / palmetto
836 / dolphin

Etc..
 
Tomorrow said:
I find the Dallas area a bit peculiar in that almost all the major highways have (and are referred to by their) names, in addition to the numbers.

I-35 = Stemmons
I-30 = R.L. Thornton
I-635 = LBJ
US-75 = Central Expressway
SH-190 = George Bush
US-175 = C.F. Hahn
I-45 = Julius Schepps

etc.
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This is how Chicago is, too. Chicagoans refer to either the name or just the number. Like carjakester was saying

carjakester said:
in chicago we have random names that i never understood:
The eisenhower (I-)290
the dan ryan 94 south of the city
the kennedy 90 north west of the city, 90/94 to downtown
the edens 94 north west of the city
the jane adams tollway 90 in the northwest suburbs
the stevensen 55 Southwest of the city
the reagen 88 west of the Eisenhower
the bishop ford 94 south of the city
the tristate 294 bypass of the city
North-South Tollway (officially the Veterans Memorial Tollway) 355 from New Lenox to Shaumburg
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Austin is quite simple.
  • I-35 is the only interstate and it's either "35" or "I-35"
  • "The Toll Road" is TX Toll 130 (85 mph speed limit)
  • Loop 1 is partially a toll, but no one calls it anything but "Mopac"
  • There are two separate pieces of toll roads, running east-west on the north and south ends of the city called TX Toll 45, but people just call it 45 and are usually referring to the north branch of it.
 
In NYC and Long Island we refer to highways by name. Long Island Expressway, Norther State Parkway, Southern State Parkway, Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. The only number we ever use is for I-95.
 
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