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Freeway "culture" is SoCal is something that absolutely fascinates me. Prefacing each freeway number with "The" Sigalerts short cut culture - they are like s
by blantonl 3y ago
Freeway "culture" is SoCal is something that absolutely fascinates me.
Prefacing each freeway number with "The"
Sigalerts
short cut culture - they are like secret snow skiing powder stashes
Hollywood definitely contributed to this with shows like CHIPS and movies like "Speed" - it's interesting how life in SoCal really does revolve around freeways more than anywhere else in the United States.
- birdyrooster 3y agoAnother freeway-revolving city must be Houston but for the opposite reason because they engineered a truly massive multi-ring hub and spoke setup. Getting anywhere requires it given how spread out the city is and how hot and humid/rainy it gets.
- fckgw 3y ago> Prefacing each freeway number with "The" SoCal had the first freeways, and they weren't numbered back then. They were named after the areas they traversed, such as "The Arroyo Seco Parkway" or "The San Diego freeway" and so on. When freeways started to get built nationwide the naming convention was changed to a numbering system, and California adopted it to go alongside the existing names (we still have the freeway names on most of our signs). So in reality, California adding "The" to the front was always correct, every other state is just doing it wrong :)
- dekhn 3y ago"The" is a south-CA thing, in the SF Bay Area, it's "101" and "280" and you can spot the interloper when they say "The 5"
- king_geedorah 3y agoCorrect. At my last company I was outed by a colleague as being from Southern California when I visited our office in the bay area because I told them I took "the 280." Was kind of funny because I had never thought about it before that.