re: #288 Jebediah, RBG

Don’t forget using “the” in front of freeway numbers. E.g. you are not driving east on route 10, you are driving east on the 10.

Took me a while to get used to, since back home I would drive north on route 91 to get to Northampton. But now it takes effort to not say “the 91.”

Putting “the” before a freeway number is a southern CA thing. It is starting to creep into northern CA, but is generally frowned on. In NorCal we used to have “the Nimitz freeway” but it’s “880” now. If I recall correctly, “Bayshore Freeway” (now “101”) was often referred to without an article preceding it.