Interstates/Freeways

We use the I65 coolsprings here in tennessee

 

I am in Maryland, and people tend to call the interstates just by the number "95," "495" though 495 is also "The Beltway" which most people, including traffic reporters, refer to it by that name because it makes a complete circle around Washington.

 

Just say the number

 

I usually say "I"+ the number like I-55 or I-40 ect. I used to drive a truck and this is very common among truckers.

 

i live in indiana and i refer to interstate 70 as just 70 and interstate 75 as 75... same with highway 35, we just call it 35. like, for instance, if i were explaining directions to someone (just making this up) i would say "yeah jump on 70, take it to 75 north then get on 35 west and take the blah blah blah exit."

 

A + number.

 

In the UK all motorways are identified by a number, prefixed by the letter M. I frequently travel the M180. Main roads and country roads are also identified by letters and numbers, eg. A46, B1146. Most people, especially drivers, use the alpha/numeric identifiers.

 

There's names we give to interstates where I live, which makes sense seeming as how I only live three hours away from NYC. The two major highways around here are Interstate 87 (or "The Northway"), which connects New York City to the Canadian border, and part of Interstate 90 (or "the Thruway"), which links Boston to Seattle and has exits leading to all of the larger upstate cities.

 

"Take the 5 to the 405 and get off at MacArthur blvd"

 

Here we just use the number. We've got 64, 264, 464, 564, and 664.

Todd

 

I usually use the prefix and number, such as I-70 and US-54 for example.

 

It's been like 6-8 years since I have been to VA and I don't have a map anymore but the interstate highways have a numbering system. I-64 would be the main path of the highway the three digit numbers that start with an even number 264, 464, and 664 should be a loop or at least a half where both ends touch 64 (assuming near different towns or different parts of town) the three digit number starting with an odd should be a spur going somewhere. An example of this is I live in Ft. Smith and it is actually about 10 miles south of I-40 so they built an interstate highway from I-40 to Ft. Smith and called it I-540.

Again I don't know the area from memory and I don't have a map in front of me but these are general rules to how the interstates are numbered.

 

To get to Bishop International Airport in Flint from my parents' house, you'd take 75 north. To get to the Detroit Metro Airport, you'd take 23 south to 94 east and follow the signs from there.

 

Are highways don't really have names just numbers.

Like if you are stuck in traffic or something you would just tell someone sorry it took me so long there was tons of traffic on 270. Sometimes people will say I 270 but it all means the same thing

 

Hey fellow New Yorker... Everyone here calls I-90 the "thruway" but everyone down in the city calls it I-90 lol

I spend a ton of time in NYC area and its always the BQE, LIE, Cross Bronx, Major D etc

 

We use both the numbers and the names here in the immediate Metro Detroit area. "Watch out on M-8 the Davison eastbound past Woodward, disabled in the right lane." We have 696 the Reuther freeway, I-75 the Chrysler(but it turns into the Fisher downtown), I-96 the Jeffries in the city, and there's also M-10 the Lodge.

Other freeways are I-94 the Ford Freeway, but no one calls it that. We have M-59, but it has no formal name. But it also goes by 20 mile to get technical. I-375 has no name really or if it does, it is never used.

 

We call them I-35, I-37, I-10.

Loops, we just call by their number (e.g. 410, 1604)

Farm roads, FM followed by number (e.g FM 78)