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I hate the signs peppered throughout the Valley that direct you to the 101 North or South, which must confuse the heck out of less saavy people who know good and well they are traveling east or west.
The 605 has a name. It's just that name usage by the populace disappeared by the time that freeway got popular. It's the San Gabriel River Freeway.
Likewise, the newest SoCal freeway, the 105, is the Century Freeway. No one calls it that, or even knows its name.
Use of the names like "Santa Ana Freeway," "Ventura Freeway" are vestigal of another time, and will likely disappear within a generation.
Though, of course, "Ventura Freeway" has longevity via a song name. And the "San Diego Freeway" has longevity through infamousness. (Though I believe the term "The 405" is more often uttered with more dripping menace and dread.)
ETA: Kevy beat me to it on the name for the 605.
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