In the Northeast it’s usually just the number or a familiar name for the highway: “Take 95 to 91” or “684 to 84 to the Mass Pike”. A lot of it is very local, as in NJ you would never call the New Jersey Turnpike anything but “the New Jersey Turnpike” or “the Turnpike.”
“A lot of it is very local, as in NJ you would never call the New Jersey Turnpike anything but “the New Jersey Turnpike” or “the Turnpike.”
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Not that local,in MA you would never say anything but The Mass Pike,never I-90.
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Thank you. Interesting that no one has chimed in yet to say that L.A.’s “the” + “number” format also exists in their region. How ‘bout across the southwest and south? Interstate 10 is “THE 10” in L.A., but is it just “10” or “I 10,” from, say, Palm Springs to Jacksonville? Anyone?