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

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MATraveler128

We just use the numbers here. You don't hear route being used usually unless it's something like Route 1, Route 2, etc.
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Rothman

Quote from: MATraveler128 on November 10, 2024, 10:25:10 PMWe just use the numbers here. You don't hear route being used usually unless it's something like Route 1, Route 2, etc.

Love the blatant contradiction in this post.

At least where I grew up in MA, it was a hodgepodge.  Route 9, 5 and 10, the Pike, 91 or I-91, 202...no real rhyme or reason.
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hotdogPi

Quote from: Rothman on November 12, 2024, 07:07:24 AM
Quote from: MATraveler128 on November 10, 2024, 10:25:10 PMWe just use the numbers here. You don't hear route being used usually unless it's something like Route 1, Route 2, etc.

Love the blatant contradiction in this post.

At least where I grew up in MA, it was a hodgepodge.  Route 9, 5 and 10, the Pike, 91 or I-91, 202...no real rhyme or reason.

I think what I said before about "Route" being used for single syllable numbers matches both what you said and what you quoted.
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webny99

Here in NY or at least upstate, major roads are almost always just the number regardless of route type. We never use "I-XX" and this is amplified in Rochester by two of our interstates also being state routes. Any need for specificity will come from other context, so it's just 390 or 590 regardless of what part of the route you're talking about.

One major exception: I-90 is always "the Thruway"

Another exception: Local roads (even if they're state routes), are usually just the name, often with no suffix. For example, NY 404 is "Ridge" or "Empire" depending on what part, NY 286 is "Browncroft", meanwhile NY 252 is "Jefferson Road". The suffix often gets dropped for unnumbered routes too, but not always.

Major state routes that aren't freeways are kind of toss-ups. NY 441 is sometimes just 441 and sometimes "Penfield Road". NY 31 is "Monroe Ave" in the city and Brighton but usually just 31 east of there. And NY 104 in Greece is sometimes "West Ridge Road" and sometimes just "104 in Greece" which everyone understands to mean the worst stretch of roadway in the area. LOL.

vdeane

Around the Capital District non-interstates are often "route X" but sometimes just the number, especially for three digit routes.  For interstates, the free portion of I-90 is I-90, the free portion of I-87 is both I-87 and the Northway, the toll portions of I-87 and I-90 are the Thruway, I-88 is I-88, I-890/NY 890 is just 890, and I-787/NY 787 is just 787.  The freeway portion of NY 7 is often called "alternate route 7".

Quote from: webny99 on November 12, 2024, 10:46:24 AMFor example, NY 404 is "Ridge" or "Empire" depending on what part, NY 286 is "Browncroft",
I usually hear "Ridge Road", "Empire Boulevard", and "Browncroft Boulevard".  Then again, I usually hear Winton and Westfall with no suffix, so maybe it depends on where you live?  Monroe Ave is still Monroe Ave, however.

Quote from: webny99 on November 12, 2024, 10:46:24 AMNY 441 is sometimes just 441 and sometimes "Penfield Road".
Probably because Penfield Road splits off heading west from the village.

Quote from: webny99 on November 12, 2024, 10:46:24 AMNY 31 is "Monroe Ave" in the city and Brighton but usually just 31 east of there.
Probably because "Monroe Ave" ends at the Village of Pittsford.  It's State Street in the village and Pittsford-Palmyra Road east of there.
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freebrickproductions

For highways in general:
Verbally:
Interstates: "Interstate X" or "I-X"
US Routes: "US X", "US Route X", or "US Highway X", sometimes just "Route X" or "Highway X"
State Routes: "State Route/Highway X", sometimes including the state or sometimes just "Route X" or "Highway X"
County Routes: "County Route X" or "County Road X", sometimes including the county name

In text:
Interstates: "I-X"
US Routes: "US X"
State Routes: "<state abbreviation> X" (i.e. AL 53, TN 7, GA 20, etc.)
County Routes: "CR X"

Others:
US 231 across Huntsville is "Memorial Parkway" or just "the Parkway"
AL 255 is "Research Park Boulevard" or even just "Research Park"
AL 53 is "Jordan Lane"
AL 67 in Decatur is "Beltline Road" or just "the Beltline"
I-565 and I-459 sometimes have their "I-" prefixed dropped
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webny99

Quote from: vdeane on November 12, 2024, 12:44:27 PM
QuoteFor example, NY 404 is "Ridge" or "Empire" depending on what part, NY 286 is "Browncroft",
I usually hear "Ridge Road", "Empire Boulevard", and "Browncroft Boulevard".  Then again, I usually hear Winton and Westfall with no suffix, so maybe it depends on where you live?  Monroe Ave is still Monroe Ave, however.

It would make sense that the suffix gets dropped in more localized contexts, considering I am indeed closer to the three I listed, and your family is closer to Winton and Westfall (IIRC). I never hear or use Boulevard for either of the two I mentioned, because it's just long and clunky, and almost always obvious from the context.


Quote from: vdeane on November 12, 2024, 12:44:27 PM
QuoteNY 31 is "Monroe Ave" in the city and Brighton but usually just 31 east of there.
Probably because "Monroe Ave" ends at the Village of Pittsford.  It's State Street in the village and Pittsford-Palmyra Road east of there.

Well, right, but I've never heard it called by either of those latter two road names. As you head east there is a shift from it being considered a local road to being considered a major long-distance highway and therefore getting the "route number only" treatment, particularly east of I-490 Exit 26.



SP Cook

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WV:

Interstate: I XX
US: US XX or Route XX used about equally
WV: WV XX or Route XX used about equally

Alternate, Spur, Business, etc. used before the name as "Alternate WV XX"

WV Turnpike is "the Turnpike" not I-77 or I-64/77

No named roads that are not actual city streets are ever used (the various signs proclaiming this or that road the this or that politician whatever are ignored)

Three digit numbers pronounced X-XX (i.e. US Four Sixty)

Most people over 40 will refer to the Appalachian Corridors by their project letter (i.e. "Corridor G" not "US 119") or if no specification is needed because the context is clear just as "the corridor"

hbelkins

Quote from: SP Cook on November 12, 2024, 02:07:35 PMWV:

Interstate: I XX
US: US XX or Route XX used about equally
WV: US XX or Route XX used about equally

Alternate, Spur, Business, etc. used before the name as "Alternate WV XX"

WV Turnpike is "the Turnpike" not I-77 or I-64/77

No named roads that are not actual city streets are ever used (the various signs proclaiming this or that road the this or that politician whatever are ignored)

Three digit numbers pronounced X-XX (i.e. US Four Sixty)

Most people over 40 will refer to the Appalachian Corridors by their project letter (i.e. "Corridor G" not "US 119") or if no specification is needed because the context is clear just as "the corridor"

And county routes are referred to mostly by name, not by number.
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JayhawkCO

I pretty much just always say the number. Since there aren't any overlaps in Colorado where you'd get confused, I don't find it necessary to say "I-", "US", etc. If I were talking to a roadgeek, I'd specify more.

LilianaUwU

Quote from: JayhawkCO on November 12, 2024, 03:48:17 PMSince there aren't any overlaps in Colorado where you'd get confused
US 36/CO 36 and US 40/CO 40 are close enough to be very confusing.
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MikieTimT

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In our state, folks here only use the #.  49 is really the only route that is both an Interstate and US highway, and being that they are on opposite sides of the state, it isn't really an issue.

TheHighwayMan3561

Quote from: LilianaUwU on November 12, 2024, 04:09:11 PM
Quote from: JayhawkCO on November 12, 2024, 03:48:17 PMSince there aren't any overlaps in Colorado where you'd get confused
US 36/CO 36 and US 40/CO 40 are close enough to be very confusing.

The CO versions of those routes, especially 40, are such local routes that you have to be trying to use them.
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Henry

When I grew up, I always followed the Chicago custom of using road names in lieu of route designations (Dan Ryan, Tri-State, Lake Shore Drive, etc.). As far as outside the city was concerned, I used "Route" for non-Interstate highways, but in Los Angeles and Seattle, I've added "Highway" to my vocabulary, plus I also had to learn "the ##" for freeways in the former city.
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gonealookin

On this forum, with respect to State routes, I usually prefer "SR ##".  If it's clear from the context that I'm talking about a portion of SR 28 in Nevada, then "SR 28" is fine.  There's also a continuing segment of SR 28 in California, though, so if a reader wouldn't instantly know which state's highway I'm referring to, I'll use "CA 28" or "NV 28".

Outside the roadgeek community, "28", "50", "395", "580", etc.  I find that nobody out there pays much attention to the shape of or colors on the shield. 

Roadgeekteen

Like most Mass people, it's just "route" for us/state highways and "I-" for Interstates.
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JayhawkCO

Quote from: TheHighwayMan3561 on November 12, 2024, 04:31:28 PM
Quote from: LilianaUwU on November 12, 2024, 04:09:11 PM
Quote from: JayhawkCO on November 12, 2024, 03:48:17 PMSince there aren't any overlaps in Colorado where you'd get confused
US 36/CO 36 and US 40/CO 40 are close enough to be very confusing.

The CO versions of those routes, especially 40, are such local routes that you have to be trying to use them.

Exactly. They're basically frontage roads.

Dough4872

Interstate X or I-X for Interstates
U.S. Route X or Route X for U.S. Routes
Route X for State Routes

DandyDan

I mostly just call it the number here in Iowa. The Avenue of the Saints, aka Iowa Highway 27, is always just the Avenue. I do know that some people who have always lived here in Mason City still refer to Iowa Highway 122 as 18, as in US 18.
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SP Cook

Quote from: hbelkins on November 12, 2024, 03:46:23 PMAnd county routes are referred to mostly by name, not by number.

Totally.  There are more people on this board that understand the WV county route system than exist outside it.  It is just a method for accounting not for route signing as other forms of route numbering are.  It is not intended to be a method of direction assisting.

CR 17/45 would 100% of the time be "Jim Bailey Farm Road". 

RZF

As a Southern Californian, it's always "The XX" (i.e., take the 101 to the 405 to the 118 to the 5). I have traveled to other states and do the same thing there, and people get so confused.

PNWRoadgeek

Quote from: RZF on November 16, 2024, 02:57:49 AMAs a Southern Californian, it's always "The XX" (i.e., take the 101 to the 405 to the 118 to the 5). I have traveled to other states and do the same thing there, and people get so confused.
Southern California also sometimes uses "The ## Freeway" for a freeway with multiple route designations(I.e. Ventura Fwy), though I'm pretty sure this is kinda far gone by now.
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Quote from: Henry on November 13, 2024, 10:02:48 PMWhen I grew up, I always followed the Chicago custom of using road names in lieu of route designations (Dan Ryan, Tri-State, Lake Shore Drive, etc.). As far as outside the city was concerned, I used "Route" for non-Interstate highways, but in Los Angeles and Seattle, I've added "Highway" to my vocabulary, plus I also had to learn "the ##" for freeways in the former city.

In the Chicago area, I pretty much only use the Interstate numbers (without the "I-") as opposed to the names, so I would take 55 to 294, for example, although others would take the Stevenson to the Tri-State. Past that, I've observed that no one really uses US routes or state route numbers, at least for those in the area. So, it's Lake Shore Drive, and not US-41, and North Avenue, and not IL-64. For routes outside the area, my experience has been that no one really talks about them all that much, except for the interstates.
I-290   I-294   I-55   (I-74)   (I-72)   I-40   I-30   US-59   US-190   TX-30   TX-6

GaryA

Having grown up in Northern California, and settled in Southern CA, my references are an inconsistent mix.

I would usually say "the 405", but just "280".  For the N/S routes, it's "101" and "the 5" -- partly because we used 101 a lot growing up, but I'm also more likely to use "the" on monosyllabic numbers.



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