[Miata] 2 questions and regionalisms NMC

[Dennis B. Swaney]

cagecko at comcast.net wrote:
> I think it's just a Southern CA thing.. I live in Northern CA 
> (Sacramento, and I've lived in the Bay Area), and nobody here calls 
> highways "The" highway number... I did live in Houston TX for 2 
> miserable years, and noticed that they do use "the" in front of the 
> highway number.. so I think it's a southern thing.
>  

We do it here in Northern California too. The part of I-80 that runs 
THROUGH Sacramento is referred to as "the W-X freeway" because it is 
located between W Street and X Street. Of course the OFFICIAL 
designation is now Business 80 and the former I-880 bypass is now just 
I-80. The funny thing is that the stretch between 29th & 30th has never 
had an unofficial name that I recall.

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Miataly,
Dennis
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