10-26-2009, 07:01 PM
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Wait... what?
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: LI/TX
Posts: 11,154
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Originally Posted by x5GuyInLA
maybe it's because here in Socal, particularly the LA area, there are a gazillion freeways and to say "head down the freeway" would beg the question, "which freeway" so we replace freeway with which one we're talking about 
we have in the LA area the 405, 5, 10, 101, 110, 90, 105, 710, 605, 210, 134, 170, 91, 60, 118, 14, 2... did I miss any? |
We have that many in the NY/NJ/LI/CT area, but they all have names in addition to the numbers so a majority of the references use their name.
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