Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site amd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!amd!phil From: phil@amd.UUCP (Phil Ngai) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: entrance ramp crawl, what do you call the freeway Message-ID: <408@amd.UUCP> Date: Wed, 10-Oct-84 02:37:57 EDT Article-I.D.: amd.408 Posted: Wed Oct 10 02:37:57 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Oct-84 06:51:45 EDT References: <869@ihuxe.UUCP> <> <207@zinfandel.UUCP> Organization: AMD, Santa Clara, CA Lines: 22 > In article <> tim@callan.UUCP (Tim Smith) writes: > >If you are ever in Pasadena, try the Pasadena Freeway ( The 11 ). This is interesting. I have been to LA and thought most people there called the Freeways by their names (Hollywood Freeway, San Diego Freeway, Santa Monica Freeway, Golden State Freeway, etc) while people in the San Francisco bay area called freeways by their numbers (101, 280, 580, 17, etc). The main reason I see for this is the way the California Department of Transportation letters the signs. In LA they use the names on the signs and in SF they use the numbers. Anyway, it appears that there is at least one person in LA who uses the numbers too. I don't know anyone in SF who uses the names. (Junipero Serra Freeway, Nimitz Freeway, Bayshore Freeway, Portola Freeway, etc). Has anyone in this group noticed the "four level interchange" in LA? -- Phil Ngai (408) 982-6554 UUCPnet: {ucbvax,decwrl,ihnp4,allegra,intelca}!amd!phil ARPAnet: amd!phil@decwrl.ARPA