Or do they even bother? I'm mostly talking about places where a US or state highway has two or more segments on either side of a concurrency with an Interstate or another major route.
Here are a couple of examples from my home metropolitan area, the Kansas City area. US 56 and US 69. For background, for whatever reason, most highways in this area that aren't Interstate or Kansas state highways are referred to as "X Highway," except when they're referred to by name instead, which sometimes happens and sometimes doesn't. Kansas state highways are usually referred to as "K-X," but Missouri state highways are usually referred to as "X Highway" (I guess nobody around here wants to step on Michigan's toes).
Anyway, in this area, it's common to hear traffic reports, and even sometimes see the variable message signs, refer to US 56 and US 69 as "56 Highway" and "69 Highway." Well, okay, that's fine, there aren't other highways numbered 56 and 69 in the area, so what's the problem? The problem is: how is anyone supposed to know which segment is being referred to? US 56 enters the metropolitan area on the southwest side as a standalone route, becomes part of 175th Street in Gardner, overlaps with I-35 for several miles, and then becomes part of Shawnee Mission Parkway and heads toward the Country Plaza District in KCMO. So, if someone hears a traffic report refer to "56 Highway," it's pretty safe to assume they're not referring to the I-35 portion, but how is that person supposed to know whether it's the 175th Street/western portion, or the Shawnee Mission Parkway/Country Club Plaza district portion?
And then of course, there's US 69. When people refer to "69 Highway" in Johnson County, KS, they usually mean the US 69 freeway, which also has a name by the way, and is signed from southbound I-35 and some local roads with its road name (Overland Parkway). But when someone says "69 Highway, how is anyone supposed to know they're not talking about the Metcalf Avenue portion (an expressway), or the 18th Street Expressway portion (a freeway) in Wyandotte County?
Here's a Street View capture that demonstrates this goofiness: https://goo.gl/maps/Wxm9H7QWqSExF9UP8
This is along southbound I-35, before three separate exits for US 69. How is someone supposed to know which is seven minutes away? At least they clarify US 56 by mentioning 175th Street, so as to differentiate it from the Shawnee Mission Parkway portion, but often, traffic reports do not differentiate the two non-I-35 segments of US 56 in Johnson County; they just say "56 Highway." It's really quite maddening.
A lot of people don't think CA 1 multiplexes US 101. I've always attributed that to the multiplex largely being silent south of Gaviota Pass. However, north of Gaviota Pass the multiplexes are often well signed. US 101 almost always is what is referenced instead of say "US 101/CA 1 over the Golden Gate Bridge."
Around Chicago it's primarily done by name.
Just caught myself referring to US 101 only when CA 1 was also present (hence the weird edit at the end):
https://www.facebook.com/72868503020/posts/10158053913828021/?d=n
I-64 in MO simply doesn't exist for some locals in St Louis; it's referred as "Highway 40" or US 40" .
Us 19/GA 400 north of I-285 perimeter is just referred as route 400
In the Minocqua/Woodruff area, US-51 and WI-70 are concurrent along the main road through the two communities. The part of WI-70 in Minocqua west of US-51 is referred to as "Highway 70 West" , while the part east of US-51 is "Highway 70 East" . This is used by businesses on billboards and commercials around Vilas and Oneida counties.
Quote from: thspfc on June 27, 2021, 06:31:42 PM
In the Minocqua/Woodruff area, US-51 and WI-70 are concurrent along the main road through the two communities. The part of WI-70 in Minocqua west of US-51 is referred to as "Highway 70 West" , while the part east of US-51 is "Highway 70 East" . This is used by businesses on billboards and commercials around Vilas and Oneida counties.
Well, that actually makes sense.
Detroit's freeways have historically been called by their name rather than their route number.
I-75 north of downtown is the Chrysler Freeway along with the entire stretch of I-375. South of downtown it's the Fisher Freeway.
I-94 is the Detroit Industrial Freeway and the Edsel Ford Freeway. It's commonly just called the Ford for the entire stretch through Wayne and Macomb counties.
I-96 is known as the Jeffries Freeway and as of 2005 the Rosa Parks Memorial Highway, it's almost always called the Jeffries though.
I-696 is the Ruether Freeway and is commonly just called the Ruether. Honestly though I've heard people just call it 696 just as much as the Ruether.
M-10 is the Lodge Freeway in Wayne County which is entirely within the city of Detroit. It's called Northwestern Highway in Oakland County. Usually people refer to it as the Lodge all the way out to the Mixing Bowl.
M-39 is the Southfield. This is also the name of the road that it runs on both north and south of M-39's terminus. It's almost always called the Southfield.
M-8 is the Davison Freeway and is always called the Davison and never M-8.
I-275 is the only one without a given name.
In the Bay Area:
US 101 is referred to by name for Bayshore Freeway and Central Freeway. (Bayshore Freeway signs used to exist in SF, the last one being covered up with a "Junction US 101" sign on I-280 north near Alemany Boulevard about 3 years ago)
I-80 in the East Bay is still specifically noted as the Eastshore Freeway; no other section is commonly referred to by name in this area. (in Sacramento it is referred to as the "North Beltline" for the segment that used to be I-880 through Natomas and Del Paso Heights)
280 east of US 101 in SF is noted as the "280 Extension" which actually has some historic merit as the original 280 route was to have gone up the 19th Avenue/Route 1 corridor pre-1968, then rerouted to subsume Route 82 (former US 101) along the Southern Freeway, and the north segment of the planned San Jose-Embarcadero portion of Route 87 that was not otherwise completed.
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Los Angeles and the Southland in general have moved away from names (pre-1970s) to the well known "the xx" format, in part because of the issues of multiple names to a route (i.e. US 101 uses Santa Ana Freeway, Hollywood Freeway, Ventura Freeway, I-5 on the Golden State and Santa Ana and San Diego Freeways). It does beg the question...when a route is split by a concurrency, do they ever get specific about 10 on the Santa Monica Freeway vs. 10 on the San Bernardino Freeway?
I agree that in a lot of places it's done by highway/route name. Especially on traffic reports on the radio, where they only have a limited time to list all the highways in a region. Which is one of the reasons I think names should be permitted on BGSes, but not given prominence. Chicago seems to do this right, by having the expressway name in a smaller font next to the route shields.
Kind of wondering, do locals in Pittsburgh call their freeways as "Parkway West", "Parkway East", "Parkway North", or with numbers like I-376 and I-279?
The Twin Cities have two unofficially named freeways: MN 62/Crosstown and US 52/Lafayette Freeway.
For Crosstown, that designation refers to the Hennepin County section between I-494 in Eden Prairie and Hiawatha Avenue; the extension of MN 62 over former MN 110 will likely just be "Highway 62" when 110 falls out of the vernacular.
As for 52, the Lafayette Freeway runs from I-94 in downtown St. Paul past I-494 into the south metro; it's a little harder to pin down where exactly the Lafayette nickname ends in the south metro and Highway 52 picks up; it could be either MN 55 junction (especially the big north split), or in the middle at Courthouse Blvd. You'll hear Highway 52 and Lafayette Freeway used interchangeably more often than Highway 62 and Crosstown.
I-94: The duplex with I-694 is dual "94/694". The N/S section between 694 and the tunnel is "94 North/South" in traffic reports.
US 10/61 from St. Paul to Hastings is often just "Highway 61", so "Highway 10" usually indicates north metro.
"I-95" is only north of Peabody and south of Canton. 128 is the part in the middle.
A lot of the state highways are called by their street names rather than their highway number. Like M-54 is pretty well known as Dort Highway, the north end includes some other roads but for the most part it's called Dort Highway.
M-58 in Saginaw is called State Street along with Davenport Avenue on it's one-way stretch.
M-46 in western Saginaw County and the west side of Saginaw is known as Gratiot. It goes through a stretch of one way streets before crossing the Saginaw River on the Rust Street Bridge. In eastern Saginaw County it's known as Holland Road.
M-13 is Washington. M-84 is Bay Road. M-47 is Midland Road.
Outside of the Detroit area I-75 and the other interstates don't have a common name they just go by their numbers.
In Norman, SH-9 is called by how it's signed from I-35: the portion of the route in Cleveland County (east of I-35) is Highway 9 East and the portion in McClain County (west of I-35) is Highway 9 West. Of course, you can go east on Highway 9 West and west on Highway 9 East, but that doesn't really seem to bother anybody.
Quote from: Flint1979 on June 27, 2021, 06:41:24 PM
Detroit's freeways have historically been called by their name rather than their route number.
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I-275 is the only one without a given name.
And the portion of I-275 concurrent with I-96 is almost always referred to only as I-275.
The names vs numbers for the Detroit area freeways is tending more toward numbers now. Exceptions being the Lodge and the Davison - they are almost always referred to by name. As you noted, the Reuther is usually referred to as I-696. The other freeways sometimes get called by name, but it seems to be tending more toward numbers. Perhaps much of that is due to Google Maps and other products, which will commonly call a highway by number, not name. Unless it's a surface street, and they might call it both.
Back to the OP, when there is a traffic report for any given highway, isn't there usually some other context? Like "Highway 69 between X and Y". So if you know where X and Y are, you know what segment of the highway is being discussed.
In my area, US 130 is probably the most relevant to this situation. It's generally clear what area they're talking about as they mention the county, the cross road, or the landmark at or near the incident.
In Orlando only Four oh Eight is called out by number as well as I-4 but the other toll roads and freeways are by name including 417 which has three distinct names, but traffic reporters call all of State Road 417 The Greeneway when only part of that road is that. The Seminole County stretch is really the Seminole Expressway and south of I Drive to its terminus at Celebration is the Southern Connector.
For I-287 (the most significant local example), it's usually just "287" regardless of which section, with "287 in New Jersey" or "287 in Westchester County" specified only if this cannot be readily discerned from context.
The fact that people are very used to using major water crossings as navigational waypoints also often helps with context, since if someone talks about traveling between the two sections, or from the eastern section to anywhere in Rockland County, they are likely to mention crossing the Tappan Zee.
In Sacramento the Western half of Capital City Freeway is named as US-50/I-305 but the western half is also known as WX Freeway.
Eastern Half of Cap City Freeway is called CA-51/Business 80. Note this is sometimes called Elvas Freeway CA-51.
In the Nashville area the interstates are all called out by number. The state highways are all called out by name unless they lack one. There is an interchange of naming conventions for US highways.
So TN 155 is Briley Pkwy.
SR 396 is Saturn Pkwy
SR 397 is Mac Hatcher Pkwy
SR 386 is Vietnam Veterans Blvd
US 31A and US 41A are called 31/41 until you get closer to Nashville. Once in Nashville they are just called by street name, Nolensville Pike(usually called Road).
The US route is never mentioned while it is concurrent with interstates in MS. My dad insists that there is a "49 North" and a "49 South" that aren't connected :-D.
- "Highway 6" is used instead of US 278 while concurrent with MS 6.
- "Highway 80" is the most used while it is concurrent with US 11, but both are acceptable.
- There's a few people who still call I-110 "Highway 15". (Side note, google maps still shows MS 15 on the interstate even though it was truncated)
- A lot of people still think US 98 goes to Natchez with US 84. I heard a meteorologist say "... where US 98 and US 84 split" yesterday. A ton of maps also show this, and sometimes 98 is the primary route west of Bude.
Quote from: SkyPesos on June 27, 2021, 06:58:37 PM
Kind of wondering, do locals in Pittsburgh call their freeways as "Parkway West", "Parkway East", "Parkway North", or with numbers like I-376 and I-279?
In my opinion:
The Parkways are more often referred to by name, as opposed to their numbers (though hearing the numbers isn't uncommon at all)
PA-28 is just "28" as opposed to Allegheny Valley Expressway
I'd say I feel like PA-65/Ohio River Blvd is pretty evenly split - Sometimes you'll hear "Ohio River Blvd", and sometimes just "65"/"Route 65".
And the Turnpike (talking mainline) is overwhelmingly just called "The Turnpike" as opposed to I-76.
All Houston interstates are referred to by name:
I-10 west of downtown: Katy Freeway
I-10 east of downtown: East Freeway or Baytown East Freeway
I-45 south of downtown: Gulf Freeway
I-45 north of downtown: North Freeway
I-69 south of downtown: Southwest Freeway
I-69 north of downtown: Eastex Freeway
The "xx direction Loop" always refers to 610 and not to Beltway 8 or the Grand Parkway. Those are usually called out by name and not "loop".
The toll roads are referred to by name (Fort Bend Tollway, Westpark Tollway, Hardy Toll Road).
However, state and US highways (other than US 59 and the Grand Parkway) are referred to by number.
California colloquialisms apply here. When someone is saying "the 101", it probably refers to the Los Angeles segment of US-101. When it's highway 101 or just 101, probably the Bay Area segment.
In the Denver area, US 36 is referred to as the "Boulder Turnpike". I-25/I-70 interchange is called the mousetrap. Some older locals still call I-25 south of I-70 through downtown the Valley Highway. US 6 west of downtown is called "Sixth Avenue" or the "Sixth Avenue Freeway". US 6-85 from I-70 to I-76 is referred to as Vasquez Boulevard. US 85 between C-470 and I-25 is always referred to as Santa Fe Drive. US 285 is referred to as Hampden (even when it's not directly on the Hampden Avenue alignment). US 40 is called Colfax Avenue until west of Golden. US 287 is used in Broomfield and points north; otherwise it's known by its surface street names - 120th Avenue, Federal Boulevard, and Colfax Avenue. We also differentiate between C-470 (the freeway CO 470 from I-25 to US 6) and E-470 (the name of the toll road on the east side of the metro from I-25/C-470 to I-25/Northwest Parkway).
My Street View trip along US 20 made me think of the following: how do the locals in the Finger Lakes region of New York State tend to refer to the US 20/NY 5 multiplex between Avon and Auburn? Is it "five twenty," or do they just call it "Route 20"? Or is it referred to as "5 and 20," akin to "1 and 9" in New Jersey?
Quote from: KCRoadFan on June 30, 2021, 01:45:40 AM
My Street View trip along US 20 made me think of the following: how do the locals in the Finger Lakes region of New York State tend to refer to the US 20/NY 5 multiplex between Avon and Auburn? Is it "five twenty," or do they just call it "Route 20"? Or is it referred to as "5 and 20," akin to "1 and 9" in New Jersey?
5 and 20.
Quote from: GenExpwy on June 30, 2021, 03:50:22 AM
Quote from: KCRoadFan on June 30, 2021, 01:45:40 AM
My Street View trip along US 20 made me think of the following: how do the locals in the Finger Lakes region of New York State tend to refer to the US 20/NY 5 multiplex between Avon and Auburn? Is it "five twenty," or do they just call it "Route 20"? Or is it referred to as "5 and 20," akin to "1 and 9" in New Jersey?
5 and 20.
Yep. 5 and 20.
I find it interesting that laymen actually acknowledge concurrencies in some areas. Around here, people will pick whichever route they like the best and refer to it by that alone. It's not "62 and 277", it's just "62". The Canadian River bridge south of Norman isn't "35 and 9", it's just "I-35." It's pervasive enough that I suspect the concept of concurrencies may actually be beyond the average person's understanding around here.
Quote from: SeriesE on June 29, 2021, 01:21:38 PM
California colloquialisms apply here. When someone is saying "the 101", it probably refers to the Los Angeles segment of US-101. When it's highway 101 or just 101, probably the Bay Area segment.
And the highway names do become useful in radio traffic reports. Even though the names are being removed from signs, and most freeways in SoCal are referred to by their number, thankfully, the core freeways that pass through Downtown LA are referred by name, which helps to differentiate the different sections of road.
I-10: Santa Monica and San Bernardino Freeways
I-5: Golden State and Santa Ana Freeways*
110: CA-110 Arroyo Seco Pkwy and I-110 Harbor Fwy**
* Technically of course, a part of the Santa Ana Freeway is also part of US 101. To my recollection, this is referred to as the 101 freeway in Downtown LA or in East LA and not as the Santa Ana Freeway. Sometimes this section is mistakenly referred to as the Hollywood Freeway. Using the term Hollywood Freeway could be a bit misleading as part of the Hollywood Freeway is US 101 and part of it is CA-170. Similarly parts of the Ventura Freeway are CA-134 and parts are US 101. From my recollection, it seems that Hollywood Freeway is used to refer to US 101 between North Hollywood and Downtown LA, and "the 170" for the part to the north. It also seems that "the 101" is used for the Ventura Fwy section of US 101 and "the 134" for CA-134. So while in the case of US 101, CA 134, and CA 170 the names can be a little confusing, the names work great for I-10, I-5 and "the 110."
** Technically, the freeway between I-10 and US 101 is the CA-110 Harbor Freeway, but generally speaking, aside from that section, I-110 is the Harbor Fwy and CA-110 is the Arroyo Seco Parkway. There is plenty of wrong signage that refers to the section north of I-10 as being I-110.
Boat Section of I-5 in Sacramento when the freeway enters the downtown area.
Overall the freeway is simply called I-5.
For 80 however it's has the history of being called Beltline aka I-80
Yolo Causeway from Davis to West Sacramento is the bridge section of I-80 in the Sacramento Valley.
Cap city freeway aka WX Freeway is I-305/US-50
Elvas Freeway is Business 80/CA-51.
CA-99 is simply Highway 99.
Solano County in particular has used both Sacramento and Bay Area namings for freeways
Locals have used the Bay Area and Sacramento naming for Interstate 80 as Highway 80 and I-80 to refer to the same freeway
This is due to Solano County being a commuter corridor and suburban area for both the Sacramento Valley and Bay Area. Highway 680, , Highway 780, and Interstate 505 yet all are interstates that enter Solano County.
For state routes we simply call it State Route 113, CA-29, CA-37 and CA-12.
I knew Bay Area residents would call I-80 (Highway 80 Eastshore Freeway) for the Contra Costa and Alameda counties section of I-80
James Lick freeway for the west end of I-80 at the US-101 Bayshore/Central freeway interchange.
In Fort Collins, US 287 is often referred to as College Street until you hit the city limits of Loveland. People hardly ever use US 14, they call it Mulberry or Riverside instead. Few people know US 14 exists west of FC.
In Lexington, the signed US routes get called by name as they depart the city in different directions. US 25 north is Georgetown Street, US 421 north is Leestown Road/Pike, US 25/421 south is Richmond Road, US 60 east is Winchester Road, US 60 west is Versailles Road, US 27 north/US 68 east is Paris Pike, US 27 south is Nicholasville Road, US 68 west is Harrodsburg road.
In Louisville, I-264 east of US 31W/US 60 (Dixie Highway) is the Watterson Expressway; west of that interchange, it's Shawnee Expressway. I didn't know that until hearing some traffic reports on WHAS radio. I had called all of it "Watterson Expressway" all my life.
I remember parts of Canada would say Highway 401 and "The 401" to mean the same highway. "The 401" has to be in the Toronto Area and Highway 401 is for other parts of Ontario.
I'm surprised nobody has pitched in about Raleigh/Durham, which gets served by the same radio/television market.
US-70 is split into a bunch of sections:
"70 in Clayton" (referring to Business US-70)
"The 70 Bypass" (referring to US-70 around the southside of Clayton, future I-42)
"70 in Garner"
"South Saunders Street"
"The connector between Wade Avenue and Capitol Boulevard"
"Glenwood Avenue" (usually means the US-70 portion, the city portion is almost always referred to as "Glenwood Avenue South")
"US-70 heading into Durham" (a combination of New Raleigh Highway and South Miami Boulevard)
"70 Bypass in Durham" (the section soon to become I-885)
"US-70 over to Hillsborough"
US-1 is a bit easier:
"Capitol Boulevard"
"The One and Sixty-four" (that tail off the west end of the Beltline that continues from I-440 westbound as US-1 and US-64)
"Route 1 down to Apex"
Amazingly, these nomenclatures seem to be used consistently amongst the locals and local media. Sometimes, the newby Traffic Reporters wlll fumble with these and come back later with an apology. Not that long ago, I could have added US-64 to the puzzle, but the advent of I-495 and now I-87 has eliminated those tags.
In the Philly area, the following are often used (at least on KYW 1060 traffic reports as of ~5 years ago, so I can't speak to how they describe the renumbered sections of the PA Turnpike, I-95, and I-295):
- I-95 (with "in the Northeast," "in Center City," "in Penn's Landing," "Girard Point Bridge," "south of the airport," and "in Chester", "in Delaware", "in Wilmington" used as locators)
- the Pennsylvania Turnpike, occasionally "the Turnpike" if context makes it clear (I-276 and I-76)
- the Schuylkill Expressway (I-76 between the PA Turnpike and the Walt Whitman Bridge, with "by the stadium", "by 30th St," "in University City", "by the Zoo", "in Manayunk", "the Conshohocken Curve" or "at the Curve", or "in King of Prussia" as locators)
- the Walt Whitman Bridge, occasionally "the Walt" (I-76 over the bridge itself)
- the 42 Freeway, the North-South Freeway (I-76 in NJ including the brief concurrency with I-295, freeway portion of NJ 42)
- the Blue Route (I-476 from I-95 to the PA Turnpike)
- the Northeast Extension (I-476 north of the Turnpike)
- the Vine St Expressway, the Vine (I-676/US 30 in Philly)
- the Ben Franklin Bridge, occasionally "the Ben" (I-676/US 30 over the bridge itself)
- 676 (I-676 in NJ)
- Admiral Wilson Boulevard (US 30 between Airport Circle and I-676)
- Airport Circle (northern end of the US 30/US 130 concurrency and western terminus of NJ 38)
- Route 130 (US 130, including the US 30/US 130 concurrency but not the concurrency with I-295)
- White Horse Pike (US 30 east of the concurrency)
- Black Horse Pike (NJ 168, NJ 42, US 322)
- the Route 1 Freeway (US 1 between the PA Turnpike and the NJ state line)
- Roosevelt Boulevard, the Boulevard (US 1 between I-76 and the PA Turnpike)
- City Line, City Ave (US 1 in Philly south of I-76)
- Route 1 Media Bypass, Media Bypass (US 1 south of Philly)
- the Jersey Turnpike, the New Jersey Turnpike, occasionally "the Turnpike" if context makes it clear (NJ Turnpike)
- 295 (I-295 in NJ, including the concurrency with US-130 but excluding the concurrency with I-76)
- the Delaware Memorial Bridge, the Delaware Memorial (I-295/US 40 over the bridge itself)
- 295 in Delaware (I-295 in DE, go figure)
- 495 (I-495)
- Route 73 (NJ 73)
- Within the city limits, PA state routes are usually referred to by their street name - it's Broad St, not PA 611; Cottman Ave instead of PA 73, Woodhaven Road instead of PA 63.
- Outside the city, most PA state routes are referred to by number (Route 291, 262, the 309 Expressway) - but PA 73 is still referred to by street name (usually Skippack Pike).
Quote from: bing101 on January 04, 2022, 12:22:57 PM
I remember parts of Canada would say Highway 401 and "The 401" to mean the same highway. "The 401" has to be in the Toronto Area and Highway 401 is for other parts of Ontario.
Do you know which parts? In my experience in southern Ontario, people use "the 401" for the entire length.
The only major road in CT that has its parts differentiated is CT 15. It has 5 distinct sections.
NY-Sikorsky Bridge: Merritt Parkway
Sikorsky Bridge-Meriden: Wilbur Cross Parkway (many still erroneously consider it the Merritt)
Meriden-Wethersfield: Berlin Turnpike
Wethersfield - I-91: Route 15 (though concurrent with US 5)
I-91 - I-84: Charter Oak Bridge (although much is on dry land).
A couple of shorter sections: CT 20 between Bradley Airport and I-91 is called the Bradley Connector; Route 20 elsewhere. The southern portion of CT 8/25 is often called the 8/25 Connector or just simply The Connector, though CTDOT catalogs it at Route 8, which extends much farther as an expressway beyond the 8/25 split. However, CTDOT signs it on BGS's on I-95 with the 25 first, which violates MUTCD standards suggesting the lower number should come first in equally categorized routes (both being state routes).
Quote from: Mr_Northside on June 29, 2021, 10:15:54 AM
... the Turnpike (talking mainline) is overwhelmingly just called "The Turnpike" as opposed to I-76.
Same here in NY with the Thruway. It's always just the Thruway, never I-90 unless you're talking about free I-90 in Albany or Buffalo.
Quote from: Rothman on July 02, 2021, 07:48:19 PM
Quote from: GenExpwy on June 30, 2021, 03:50:22 AM
Quote from: KCRoadFan on June 30, 2021, 01:45:40 AM
My Street View trip along US 20 made me think of the following: how do the locals in the Finger Lakes region of New York State tend to refer to the US 20/NY 5 multiplex between Avon and Auburn? Is it "five twenty," or do they just call it "Route 20"? Or is it referred to as "5 and 20," akin to "1 and 9" in New Jersey?
5 and 20.
Yep. 5 and 20.
Yep again.
In Cincinnati, the interstates all have names*, but they are almost never used; they are called by number. The 20-mile long concurrency of I-71 and I-75 is called both 75 and 71/75 in about equal numbers. It's never referred to as just 71.
*at least in the Ohio part of the metro
I-71 north of downtown is the Northeast Expressway
I-75 north of downtown is the Millcreek Expressway
I-74 is the Northwest Expressway
I-275 is the Circle Freeway, or the Donald Rohlf Circle Freeway
However, the Ronald Reagan Highway (most of which is OH-126) is mostly called by its former name - Cross-County Highway. It was renamed the Ronald Reagan Cross County Highway almost 25 years ago.
Just to add more confusion - part of I-275 in Kentucky is also called the Ronald Reagan Highway
The main one that comes to mind in my area is the freeway portion of NY 104 always being just "104" while the surface street portion is usually "Ridge Rd".
The Rochester area freeway network is simple enough that you can sometimes say "I'm taking the highway" and that's sufficient even if you're actually going to take multiple different highways. Fairport to Webster would be a classic example: "Taking the highway" would be understood as I-490 to NY 590 to NY 104.
ID-55 between Eagle and McCall/New Meadows people call "Highway 55". The segment between Eagle and I-84 people just call "Eagle Rd" (this is largely a suburban arterial). The segment between Nampa and Marsing most people call "Karcher Rd". I would bet that a lot of people don't realize the latter 2 segments are actually a part of ID-55.
Quote from: jlam on January 02, 2022, 12:55:34 PM
In Fort Collins, US 287 is often referred to as College Street until you hit the city limits of Loveland. People hardly ever use US 14, they call it Mulberry or Riverside instead. Few people know US 14 exists west of FC.
i do. i live on it. but, and I realize I'm being nitpicky here, it's State Highway 14 not US 14
between Fort Collins and Loveland it's often hard to tell where college ends and I think it's Garfield begins. i used to say it was CR 30 but that is now called 71st St which is on the Loveland St. grid
fun fact Loveland and Fort Collins used to be long distance calls from each other.
Quote from: 7/8 on January 05, 2022, 12:41:59 PM
Quote from: bing101 on January 04, 2022, 12:22:57 PM
I remember parts of Canada would say Highway 401 and "The 401" to mean the same highway. "The 401" has to be in the Toronto Area and Highway 401 is for other parts of Ontario.
Do you know which parts? In my experience in southern Ontario, people use "the 401" for the entire length.
I knew some roadgeek videos I seen describe Highway 401 when it's outside of Toronto and "The 401" when it's in the Toronto area. Or is this interchangeable?
Quote from: bing101 on January 05, 2022, 03:43:03 PM
Quote from: 7/8 on January 05, 2022, 12:41:59 PM
Quote from: bing101 on January 04, 2022, 12:22:57 PM
I remember parts of Canada would say Highway 401 and "The 401" to mean the same highway. "The 401" has to be in the Toronto Area and Highway 401 is for other parts of Ontario.
Do you know which parts? In my experience in southern Ontario, people use "the 401" for the entire length.
I knew some roadgeek videos I seen describe Highway 401 when it's outside of Toronto and "The 401" when it's in the Toronto area. Or is this interchangeable?
Interesting, I've never heard someone making a distinction based on if the 401 is inside or outside of Toronto. I personally say "the ___" for all the 400-series highways. "Highway 401" sounds more formal, and for me, would make me think a person is not from around here.
Quote from: 7/8 on January 05, 2022, 06:04:30 PM
Quote from: bing101 on January 05, 2022, 03:43:03 PM
Quote from: 7/8 on January 05, 2022, 12:41:59 PM
Quote from: bing101 on January 04, 2022, 12:22:57 PM
I remember parts of Canada would say Highway 401 and "The 401" to mean the same highway. "The 401" has to be in the Toronto Area and Highway 401 is for other parts of Ontario.
Do you know which parts? In my experience in southern Ontario, people use "the 401" for the entire length.
I knew some roadgeek videos I seen describe Highway 401 when it's outside of Toronto and "The 401" when it's in the Toronto area. Or is this interchangeable?
Interesting, I've never heard someone making a distinction based on if the 401 is inside or outside of Toronto. I personally say "the ___" for all the 400-series highways. "Highway 401" sounds more formal, and for me, would make me think a person is not from around here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_Highway_401
OK this may have been a sampling issue here over on my part Highway 401 and "The 401" is referred to the entire length of Ontario Highway 401.