Roads/Highways referred to by a name/number other that what is signed

[TEG24601]

Aside from people who use the word "highway" instead or "route", "state route", or "state road", or dropping numbers from a multi-pled, do you have any road or highways that are referred to by different names or numbers than what is actually signed for the road.


Carroll County IN road 200N, 150N, and 75W (one contiguous road), is called by locals "The Crooked Road", even though just the 75W segment has any curves on it.


There is a segment of M-24 through the town of Lake Orion, that everyone calls "Lapeer Road", because that is what the surrounding townships and towns call the road, but Lake Orion has a street, which may have been the former alignment of M-24 that is actually designated Lapeer Street, and M-24 is just M-24.


Also in Lake Orion, there is a street along the Eastern shores of Lake Orion that is commonly called by locals, "North Shore Ave", when it is just "N Shore Ave", and there is a "S Shore Ave", but the southern section gets called "S North Shore Ave".  When I was living there, the post office actually was going so far as to return letters than said "N Northshore Ave.", since there was no "Northshore Ave", to sender to try to correct the problem.


In Portland, OR's west side, there is a street that runs along the water front, which is currently signed "Natio Parkway", however, everyone calls it "Front Avenue".  It was double signed for years, but no one has really paid attention, nor do they care, and they still use the old name, even though it is no longer signed as such.

[Sam]

MA 128

[hotdogPi]

MA 128

Only for a few miles. The rest of the corridor is signed as both 95 and 128.

[1995hoo]

Don't know whether this counts because it's technically an acronym: Duke of Gloucester Street in Williamsburg is commonly referred to as "Dog Street."

[roadfro]

Las Vegas, Nevada:  It's "Las Vegas Blvd" on signs, but commonly referred to as "The Strip" (and sometimes referred to as "The Boulevard").

[hotdogPi]

"3" on the Everett Turnpike in New Hampshire. Part of it is US 3. Some of it isn't, but people still refer to the non-US 3 section as "3" (sometimes "Route 3", sometimes just the number).

[Eth]

Though "the Perimeter" is essentially a universal term for I-285, to the best of my knowledge this name is not actually signed anywhere.

[Alps]

In the NYC area, a few sets of conflation where a shorter or newer route disappears in favor of its continuation:
NJ 495 = Route 3
West St. = West Side Highway
Harlem River Drive = FDR
Lakeside Ave. (Verona) = Pleasant Valley Way

Also, NJ 139 (Lower) = "1&9 approach" from when it was US 1/9 Business (original 1/9)

[Brandon]

I-290/I-355 between Biesterfield and Army Trail.  It's known as "Route 53" even though IL-53 joins the freeway at Biesterfield.  Historically, it was all IL-53.

[pianocello]

In Clinton County, MI, Old US 27 is referred to as "27". In the county, the road officially has no name (I think all addresses still use US 27), but in the City of St. Johns, it's called Whittemore St and signed Business US 127.

Also in St. Johns, MI, M-21 is referred to as "M-21" to the best of my knowledge, even though it's called State St. (doesn't really count)

[hotdogPi]

In Clinton County, MI, Old US 27 is referred to as "27". In the county, the road officially has no name (I think all addresses still use US 27), but in the City of St. Johns, it's called Whittemore St and signed Business US 127.

Also in St. Johns, MI, M-21 is referred to as "M-21" to the best of my knowledge, even though it's called State St.

Is it signed as M-21? If it is, it doesn't count.

[US81]

In Austin, TX there is a freeway west of and parallel to I-35 . Locals call it "Mopac" for the Missouri-Pacific RR tracks in the median of some of the freeway.  The signage is nearly all "Loop 1" and not Mopac.

When my sister got married a number of years ago, lots of family members were late, because they were looking for "Mopac" and not "Loop 1."

[DrSmith]

It is referred to as Route 42 all the way to the Walt Whitman Bridge in NJ, ignoring the I-76 stretch from I-295 to the bridge.

[freebrickproductions]

Madison Boulevard in Madison, AL is still referred to as Highway 20. It doesn't help that Huntsville calls their portion of the same road "Highway 20" despite AL 20 no longer running along it since the 1990s.

[cpzilliacus]

Md. 200 is generally still referred to as "the ICC," even though there is no mention of ICC on any BGS panels.

[hbelkins]

In my area, KY 498 is known as the Cutoff Road. KY 11 north of Beattyville to the Lee/Wolfe county line is called "the new road" because it's a realignment of the old highway. KY 1571 in Estill County is officially called Millers Creek Road but most people call it River Road.

[Occidental Tourist]

The Glenn Anderson Freeway, I-105, in LA is still often referred to by its prior name, the Century Freeway.

[jeffandnicole]

On very rare occasion, and no one here would ever make the mistake, but some think all of the NJ Turnpike is 95.

[pianocello]

In Clinton County, MI, Old US 27 is referred to as "27". In the county, the road officially has no name (I think all addresses still use US 27), but in the City of St. Johns, it's called Whittemore St and signed Business US 127.

Also in St. Johns, MI, M-21 is referred to as "M-21" to the best of my knowledge, even though it's called State St.

Is it signed as M-21? If it is, it doesn't count.

Fair enough. Fixed.

[txstateends]

In Fort Worth, the traffic reporters refer to the part of US 81-US 287 that angles NW from I-35W in the north side of the city as 'the Decatur Cutoff', although I don't think there's ever been any naming or labeling as such.

Occasionally you will hear some of the DFW traffic reporters include a reference to 'the old (or former) DFW Turnpike' when talking about I-30 between Dallas and Fort Worth, even though that section of highway hasn't been tolled since 1978.

In several towns around TX, you might hear locals talk about something being on the _______ Highway, basically meaning the road that goes to __________ (name of next or nearest town in that direction).  In many of those cases, the street/road has never been labeled or signed as such.  Adding to this, a few of those towns have previous alignments of the current roads leading out of town, with the previous ones getting the Old _______ Highway reference and the current ones getting the New __________ Highway one (again, not always the actual or signed name in some cases).

[xcellntbuy]

Though "the Perimeter" is essentially a universal term for I-285, to the best of my knowledge this name is not actually signed anywhere.

I have noticed the same when listening to Atlanta radio in the morning before work.  In addition, apparently the busiest section of the Interstate 285/Atlanta Bypass is the northern leg, often referred to as "the top end."

[TEG24601]

Madison Boulevard in Madison, AL is still referred to as Highway 20. It doesn't help that Huntsville calls their portion of the same road "Highway 20" despite AL 20 no longer running along it since the 1990s.

A tangent of this is the road in Vancouver named Highway 99.  It isn't a state route, just the road's name since SR 99 starts/ends almost 150 miles to the North, and thanks to I-5 there is no direct connection to OR 99E or 99W.

[odditude]

I-476 in the Philly area, officially (but never signed as) the Mid-County Expressway, referred to by all as the Blue Route.

I-76 in NJ, considered by most to be part of NJ 42.

[Brian556]

In Denton, Tx, FM 2164 north of LOOP 288 is often referred to as "Old Missile Base Rd", cause it has an abandoned underground missile silo near it. The street name blades call it N Locust St.

[roadman65]

In Orlando the part of the Orange Blossom Trail signed as US 17 & 92 is always called either OBT or Four Forty One (for US 441).  Although both the name and US 441 are correct, nobody even knows that US 17 & 92 exist south of FL 50 in Orlando despite the US 17 & 92 shields stand out more than the US 441 shields do along the route.

For a long time Old Dixie Highway in Taft, Flamingo (now absorbed into Meadow Woods), and Kissimmee was called Orange Avenue to the point that Orange County legislatively renamed Old Dixie Highway to Orange Avenue and then later Osceola County followed suit north of Osceola Parkway.

US 441 in Palm Beach and Broward Counties in Florida is called SR 7 by all locals and the overhead street signs refer to it as such.  However, no SR 7 route shields are present.