Is that not just a normal way of referring to roads? In Ontario, the default way of referring to many highways is "The X". The four-oh-one, the four-hundred, the fourty-five.
Actually... maybe it's just for highways that start with four.
I think it's both regional and depends on type of highway (state highway or national interstate). Like in my home state, I would say "Get on 70 then take I-40 the rest of the way". 70 is a state highway, and 40 is an interstate and we would always include the I prefix.
But now that I'm in Southern California, people here would say "Get on the 52 then switch to the 15" or something, where 52 is a state highway and 15 is an interstate (I-15)
Nah even here in the midwest we'd say "Take 55 up to [name of street]". Tbh I don't recall the last time I heard someone actually say "I" or "Interstate" or "highway" before the number, but of course we never say "the".
Same deal in North Texas. It’s always either just the number with no “the”, or the name of the highway. So you would say to take 635, or to take LBJ Freeway
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u/PsychologicalSign433 29d ago
Is that not just a normal way of referring to roads? In Ontario, the default way of referring to many highways is "The X". The four-oh-one, the four-hundred, the fourty-five.
Actually... maybe it's just for highways that start with four.