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Yes, the ROUTES have names. The freeways have numbers. The confusitory nature of the changing Route Names along the same freeways gave rise to almost all Southern Californians referring to the freeways by number with a "The" in front, and for some oddball reason, all Northern Californians opting for the royal Number with no "The."
Except for the very odd odd intersection where the 101 becomes the 134 if you travel in a straight line in one direction while the 170 becomes the 101 if you travel in a straight line in the other (with the added strangeness that, of the four possible direction changes here, there's no freeway interchange from the 101 east to the 170 north) ... ahem, except for that oddity, most numbers are consistent while staying on the same freeway ... and that's why the numbers gained dominance over the names.
But why in the world don't the numbers have "The" in NorCal??? Do most people there refer to themselves in the third person also??
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