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Sorry sorry, they specified no "the". They meant that the letter I was optional depending on the freeway I think?
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lmao if you use numbers to talk about your highways and don't give them all local names that everyone uses and completely mystify out of towners.
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augias posted:Sorry sorry, they specified no "the". They meant that the letter I was optional depending on the freeway I think? That sounds right.
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Feb 24, 2024 16:44
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R.D. Mangles posted:lmao if you use numbers to talk about your highways and don't give them all local names that everyone uses and completely mystify out of towners. Didn’t realize you, too, grew up in Houston
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Feb 24, 2024 17:11
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Where I'm at you're either east of the "I" or west of the "I"
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Feb 24, 2024 17:27
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augias posted:Sorry sorry, they specified no "the". They meant that the letter I was optional depending on the freeway I think? yeah, that's common. we say "75" a lot. there's also the lodge (dont call it M-10), 94, 96, telegraph. uhhh, what's another cutesy one. the davison shuffle is nightmarish but i dont have a nickname for it
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Feb 24, 2024 17:28
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Jean-Paul Shartre posted:Didn’t realize you, too, grew up in Houston how dare you
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Radia posted:yeah, that's common. we say "75" a lot. there's also the lodge (dont call it M-10), 94, 96, telegraph. uhhh, what's another cutesy one. Exit 69 at Big Beaver
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Feb 24, 2024 17:32
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Regional names for roads is fun. Houston is an absolute mess where you'll get 2\3 names for the same roads depending on where you are from downtown. 
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R.D. Mangles posted:lmao if you use numbers to talk about your highways and don't give them all local names that everyone uses and completely mystify out of towners. That’s New York’s schtick The van Wyck The LIE The BQE The Cross Bronx The cross island The FDR The west side highway (ok that one is pretty reasonable) The Henry Hudson
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Feb 24, 2024 17:32
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BYU was down this year, but I expected their ratings to be a little better based on the copium I consumed in the wake of OUT’s departure.
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Feb 24, 2024 17:57
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When we get casual we just use the numbers. Get on 10 until it hits 65. Accident on 10 west.
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Feb 24, 2024 18:05
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We use the full designation in SC “I-26” or “26” or “526” but local roads are pretty funny. John’s Island has Main Rd that runs to Kiawah but it is alternately Bohicket Rd and Betsy Kerrison Parkway depending on where you are on the road. Also other state highways will be Old Orangeburg Hwy or a random street name depending on where you are. its such a loving mess.
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Feb 24, 2024 18:16
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Everyone in south Florida says “95”
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Feb 24, 2024 18:24
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In Baton Rouge you’re required to take I-10/ I-12 to go anywhere in the city. What’s a loop?
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Silly Burrito posted:What’s a loop? Oklahoma City has 2/3 of a loop, but part of it is a toll road and another part is notorious as the most dangerous stretch of highway in the city, people drive wild on it for whatever reason. They're trying to close the loop but it's drawing a lot of controversy over imminent domain despite it running through a mostly rural area, also that it too would be a permanent toll road. Everyone also says "I-35/40/44/240," but no one calls I-235 by that designation, it's the "Broadway Extension" 
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Feb 24, 2024 18:50
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Austin is my favorite city with hosed up roads. I think it has two “loops” that aren’t actually loops.
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Feb 24, 2024 19:02
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I like that 75 and 85 connect in atlanta and switch places
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We don't have cute nicknames for our roads but I do live pretty close to Bob Boozer Drive and Harry Andersen Ave which I refer to as the "guys names roads". The Omaha Steaks HQ is here on a road called John Galt Blvd 
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Joey Freshwater posted:I like that 75 and 85 connect in atlanta and switch places Just name it Peachtree Interstate
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Maxwells Demon posted:Southern California specifically. Anyone north of Santa Barbara will make fun of SoCal people for doing it.
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Feb 24, 2024 19:58
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Adun posted:That’s New York’s schtick That's because most of them either overlay roads that had those names or entered service before the interstate system existed. The Van Wyck Expressway replaced the Van Wyck Boulevard. It opened in 1950 and wasn't assigned Interstate 678 until 1965. The Long Island Expressway wasn't Interstate 495 until 1984 and is technically only one segment that was built in the mid 1950s. The BQE was built in the 1930s. And so on. It isn't really unique to the New York area. It is common for pre-Interstate highways to retain their old names in the Northeast and Mid Atlantic. Like the Pennsylvania Turnpike instead of I-76.
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Feb 24, 2024 20:42
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How DARE you leave out the Major Deegan
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Feb 24, 2024 20:55
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My town is bisected by State Highway 69 
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Seaniqua posted:The Omaha Steaks HQ is here on a road called John Galt Blvd lol we have a John Galt Way in Mt Pleasant, squarely in the silver-spoon shitbag neighborhood full of wifeswapping sociopaths (I’on, if anyone knows it). I find it intensely funny.
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Feb 24, 2024 22:06
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Athens is defined by loop 10, 78 and 316.
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George H.W. oval office posted:Regional names for roads is fun. Houston is an absolute mess where you'll get 2\3 names for the same roads depending on where you are from downtown. Some of the names get used and some not. The Katy Freeway goes west, the Gulf Freeway goes to Galveston (the first modern freeway btw), but the road going to Mexico is and will always be 59, regardless of this I-69 business
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LeeMajors posted:lol we have a John Galt Way in Mt Pleasant, squarely in the silver-spoon shitbag neighborhood full of wifeswapping sociopaths (I’on, if anyone knows it). Ann Rand would be proud.
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Amy Pole Her posted:Everyone in south Florida says “95” I legit think if someone here said "the 95" or "the 70" most people wouldn't even know what you meant for a second
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 Tokyo has a decent ring road system, but some of the C1 roads get a bit hairy. They’re also posted laughably slow for somebody who lived in the U.S. The Aqua Line is also a fun one, most of it is an underwater tunnel.
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Can I ask how this works? You are supposed to say "I was driving down 95 yesterday and merged onto 70 to get home."? This sounds very wrong.
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augias posted:Can I ask how this works? You are supposed to say "I was driving down 95 yesterday and merged onto 70 to get home."? This sounds very wrong. Yup, that's exactly what people would say, I. E. "take 29 to 100 to Snowden"
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Tokyo I think has had some of the best car traffic I’ve ever experienced in a huge city getting in and out of the central areas. Not that I’ve taken many cars since most of the time we’re taking trains but I’ve taken cars from Haneda a few times to Tokyo station and also driven out to Saitama to visit my wife’s family and each time has been shockingly smooth unlike Beijing or Seoul or Bangkok much less London/LA/NYC I mean it’s understandable given you know WW2
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Canadians would probably die laughing but I honestly could not believe how well-behaved Toronto drivers were compared the loving outrageous shithead nonsense I deal with in SC. Like, everyone just kind of didn’t speed limit. I’d never seen anything quite like it.
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People in Buffalo put "the" before route numbers, which I've never encountered anywhere else east of the Mississippi.
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Adun posted:Tokyo I think has had some of the best car traffic I’ve ever experienced in a huge city getting in and out of the central areas. Not that I’ve taken many cars since most of the time we’re taking trains but I’ve taken cars from Haneda a few times to Tokyo station and also driven out to Saitama to visit my wife’s family and each time has been shockingly smooth unlike Beijing or Seoul or Bangkok much less London/LA/NYC The center might be okay (ironically it’s because most is only 2-lane at most, except right before interchanges) but like the Tomei heading in after a holiday weekend can be stopped for miles. It’s awful. And forget trying to head to Kamakura/Enoshima/etc, on surface roads it took me over an hour to go 6 miles a couple weekends ago.
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KKKLIP ART posted:Athens is defined by loop 10, 78 and 316. Milledge is 441 Athens would have had an actual interstate, but Governor Vandiver redirected I-85 to his hometown of Lavonia, which never grew.
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RC and Moon Pie posted:Milledge is 441
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Nashville is defined by having the roads designed for about 100,000 people not a million. and now since the snow storm, the potholes!
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Fluffdaddy posted:Nashville is defined by having the roads designed for about 100,000 people not a million. and now since the snow storm, the potholes! it is the loving worst experience ive ever had behind the wheel
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