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> 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, s
by 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.