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Started by achilles765, November 08, 2024, 04:41:41 PM

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achilles765

Saw this on a Facebook group and made me wonder:

When you're talking about a route, or reading a sign to yourself, how do you pronounce or say the route. For example, Alternate US 90, or Loop 336

For me it's:
"US xx, US xx alternate, Business US xx"
"Interstate xx, interstate xx business"
"(State name) xx, loop xx, spur xx, (state name) xx business"
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Single digits (or single syllables, I'm not close enough to 7, 10, or 12 to know which) are Route [number]. Everything else is solely the number. No differentiation between types of routes.
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Hunty2022

Full names:
Interstate XX, Interstate XX Business
US Route XX, US Route XX Alternate, Route US XX Business
State Route XX, State Route XX Business

Shortened names:
I-XX, I-XX Business
US XX, US XX Alternate, US XX Business
SR-XX, SR-XX Business (SR replaced with any state, example; VA-20. I refer to VA Secondary Routes as SR-XXX)

If I'm talking to a local or someone related to me, I'll probably say just the number, or "Route XX".
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roadman65

Depending on where I'm at.  When I lived in New Jersey it was Route x no matter the designation including interstates. I-280 was Route 280 and I-287 was Route 287.

When I moved to Florida I got strange looks calling I-4 by Route 4.  Then I learned no one says " Route" down here, but either says " Highway" or designation or like " Three oh one" for US 301 and " Four forty-one" for US 441.

Then concurrencies are only referred to one number as well.  In New Jersey we almost always referred to concurrent routes by both hence US 1 and 9 were " One and nine" or US 202 and 206 were " two oh two and two oh six."  Only one the US 1/9/46 concurrency is referred to as Route 46 as most people in New Jersey think that Routes 1 & 9 don't exist north of the Pulaski Skyway in Jersey City. I'm not sure about the US 40 & 322 concurrency in South Jersey to know what it's called.

In Florida all routes in Central Florida concurrent with US 441 are referred to just "Highway 441" or "four forty one."  Like the US 17 & 92 overlap over US 441 or both US 27 and US 301 get ignored in the Leesburg/ Ocala area for just 441.

US 98 is ignored on its long overlap with US 19.  Plus US 17 & US 92 get ignored overlapping FL 50 in Orlando. That's very odd cause US routes always take precedence over state routes and in some cases don't get signed on US / State overlaps.
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Max Rockatansky

I just say the route number around normal people in California.  When I lived in Michigan I had to differentiate between US Route, Trunkline and Interstate.

GaryV

Quote from: Max Rockatansky on November 08, 2024, 05:31:48 PMWhen I lived in Michigan I had to differentiate between US Route, Trunkline and Interstate.

Which were called US-xx, M-xx and I-xx, respectively.

Not that it makes that much difference, except for knowing that I-xx is a freeway. There aren't many duplicate numbers that are close enough to really matter; US-24 and M-24 being one exception, I-75 and M-75 as well. Sure there are 2 69's, 2 45's, 2 96's, 2 94's and maybe a few others. But not close enough that they'd be confused very often.

pderocco

Quote from: Max Rockatansky on November 08, 2024, 05:31:48 PMI just say the route number around normal people in California.  When I lived in Michigan I had to differentiate between US Route, Trunkline and Interstate.
Yes, California's one state that eschews duplicate numbers in different road categories (unless they're actually the same road, like 15, 110, 210, 238), so that works here. But having come from Massachusetts, I say the prefix "I" for interstates, "U.S." for United States routes, "route" for state routes, and "A" suffix for alternates. I pretty much never say "interstate" or "United States route", or "highway", or "state route", or "alternate". I don't refer to business routes that often, and there aren't any back where I come from, so I don't have a preferred locution for those.

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For Interstate highways, I refer to them as "The I-#".

For US and state highways, I refer to them as "Route #".

For county roads, I refer to them as "County Route #".
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Max Rockatansky

Quote from: pderocco on November 08, 2024, 06:32:42 PM
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on November 08, 2024, 05:31:48 PMI just say the route number around normal people in California.  When I lived in Michigan I had to differentiate between US Route, Trunkline and Interstate.
Yes, California's one state that eschews duplicate numbers in different road categories (unless they're actually the same road, like 15, 110, 210, 238), so that works here. But having come from Massachusetts, I say the prefix "I" for interstates, "U.S." for United States routes, "route" for state routes, and "A" suffix for alternates. I pretty much never say "interstate" or "United States route", or "highway", or "state route", or "alternate". I don't refer to business routes that often, and there aren't any back where I come from, so I don't have a preferred locution for those.

I can't bring myself to insert "the" before the highway number.  That kind of slang is straying too close to something like "The Ohio State" for my tastes. 

roadman65

I say I for interstates, but in Texas I say IH.
State Road for state highways, except up north where Route prevails and still used to that from early days.
US for US routes except up north I still call them Route x.

County Road or County Route for county designations.

In Texas and Oklahoma it's State Highway x. FM x for Farm To Market designations in Texas.  Then in Kansas it's K- X or M- X in Michigan as they use the state letter as a prefix.
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PNWRoadgeek

I just typically say the number of the road when I'm in Oregon(I.e 84, 26, etc.), the only exception being I-5, I do not call it "5" rather just "I-5". When I'm in other states I typically refer to the State Highways as SR or *insert state here* Highway(I.e SR 99, Texas Highway 1), but I refer to US and Interstates as just their number,
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Interstates are often just the number. All other non-Interstate routes are generally Highway X.
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1995hoo

It depends on to whom I am speaking and whether I'm giving directions. If I'm giving directions, I will use I-# and US-# for those classes of road. For Virginia state routes, if the directions are in writing I'll use VA-#, but if they're spoken I'll use "Route #" (pronounced "rout," not "root"). If I'm referring to a state route in another state I'll use the state's name when giving spoken directions: "Maryland state route #." In written directions, all abbreviated references always have the hyphen as shown in this paragraph.

If I'm not giving directions, I may not bother with the class of road and I may or may not use "Route," mainly depending on whether the listener is a local resident. For example, if I were speaking to a neighbor and referring to Dolce Vita, a restaurant in Fairfax City, I might say, "It's a short distance east of the intersection of 50, 29, and 236."

References like "Alternate" or "Business" come after the number: "29 Business" or "US-29 Business," though depending on where it is I may use the street name (Emmet Street or JPA when referring to US-29 Business in Charlottesville, for example).

No road is ever "Highway #" and no number ever has a "the" before it except when referring to European roads like the M4 in England.
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hbelkins

In casual conversation, I will just refer to the route number by itself. 11, 52, 460, 64, 75, etc. For the Mountain Parkway, the nearest freeway to me, it's just "the parkway." Even at work, the Mountain Parkway is just "the parkway" and the Hal Rogers Parkway gets the full name treatment.

In writing, it's KY ##, US ###, and I-##.
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Usually Interstate ##, "The Interstate," or "The freeway" locally or if up in Chicagoland, by the Expressway/Tollway name

US and IL routes locally usually just "Route ##." If it is an area where there are parallel "New" and "Old" alignments of said numbered route, then will refer to as "New ##" or "Old ##". In the Carbondale area US 51 and IL 13 both have "New" and "Old" alignments out of town

The major county routes usually have a (town name) Rd formal name that said road goes to/from, but typically locally referred to as (town name) Blacktop. Ava Blacktop. Elkville Blacktop. Herrin Blacktop (which is an unnumbered state route for most of its length). Johnston City Blacktop. Etc etc. I don't think the suffix "Blacktop" is ever an official designation but I could be wrong

Great Lakes Roads

Indiana:

I-xx or simply the number (unless it's the Borman or the ITR)
US Route xx, Route xx, or US xx
SR xx (exceptions: the Lloyd in Evansville and Cline Ave in NW Indiana)
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KeithE4Phx

Quote from: Great Lakes Roads on November 09, 2024, 10:11:35 PMIndiana:

I-xx or simply the number (unless it's the Borman or the ITR)
US Route xx, Route xx, or US xx
SR xx (exceptions: the Lloyd in Evansville and Cline Ave in NW Indiana)

If one is "of a certain age" (read: remembers the 1960s and earlier), all state highways were referred to as "Road."  For example, IN 37 was "Road 37," the pre-465 never-finished Indy bypass was "Road 100," and the like.  I don't remember US highways being referred to that way, nor were Interstates.  That practice was gone after 1970 or so.
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Arizona:

All freeways are called "The 10," "The 101," and the like, regardless of whether they are Interstates, US highways, or state highways.

Surface highways are either called by their proper number (US 93, SR 260, etc.) or by the highway's given name, such as "The Beeline Highway" for SR 87 north of Mesa, or "Grand Avenue" for US 60 between Phoenix and Wickenburg.  This may be strictly a metro Phoenix thing, though.
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Flint1979

Usually around here people just say the route number, like for US-10 it's just 10, I-75 is just 75 (and in the concurrency with US-23 is never referred to as US-23, not 75/23 or I-75/US-23 it's I-75). For the state highways using just the route number is common and so is using the M in front of it like M-46 or 46. Funny how Google Maps calls M-46 State Route 46 while saying Michigan instead of State Route for the rest of them. In the Detroit area I call the freeways by their given names instead of route numbers like I'll call I-94 the Ford, I-75 the Fisher and Chrysler, M-10 the Lodge, M-39 the Southfield, M-8 the Davison, I-96 the Jeffries and so on. Always call M-1 Woodward instead of M-1 and 8 Mile instead of M-102.

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I-95, Route 1, and when business routes are involved, Business Route 1 and Regular Route 1.
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In Oklahoma, I-x, US-x, and Highway x.

In Nevada, I'm an incoherent mess. I-15, probably I-11 (although it's kind of easy to lose the I sound in the beginning of 11 so maybe that'll change), but "the 215" because the difference between I-215 and CC-215 is usually academic; I pretend US-95 and I-515 don't exist (since they're already both I-11 on paper and the signs are going up Any Day Now so I don't want to get used to calling it anything to do with 515/95), and then just "613", which most people probably wonder what the hell that is when I say it since the signage for it sucks but it's shorter than saying "Summerlin Parkway".
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Streetman

Here in CT, and for me, it could be either "I-" before interstates and "Route" before US and state highways, or just the number. No number duplication between different types, no alternate or business routes I know of, no county routes. Never "The" with a number!

Big John

number or letter(s) only, except I sometimes use I- in front of an interstate.

Quillz

Generally just "the #." Otherwise "Route #."

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Over here it's mostly "la xx" (literally "the xx", but in French), or the name of the highway. Surface routes usually won't be referred to by number but by name, and names might also be used to refer to certain segments of highways (e.g. Autoroute de la Capitale is used to refer to A-40 between A-573 and the easternmost A-440). I mostly follow that naming and numbering scheme, but unlike most people I'll acknowledge numbers.
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