Actually if someone gave me directions and said take 405 or 5 or 101 or
110, 90, 105, 710, 605, 210, 134, 170, 91, 60, 118, 14, 2 I would no problem
understanding and there would be no need to add the additional "THE".
Doing so is just unnecessary verbiage.
Now if there was more than one 405, 5, 10, 101 ect then there might be a need to distinguish one from another but as it is that's not the case.
Therefore imo there's just no need to add the word "the" in this case.
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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? |
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