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festerwl t1_j2175yx wrote

The 46 miles through PA are good. It was 40° today so we were all wearing shorts.

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PPQue6 t1_j212706 wrote

It's fine, can't speak to the NY Turnpike, but at least in PA it's fine today.

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[deleted] t1_j214dmr wrote

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STLLC2019 t1_j2160nq wrote

People from outside of PA, being generally weirdos, have an annoying tendency to refer to interstates as "The (highway number)" rather than I-(highway number) like normal folk.

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drewbaccaAWD t1_j22j0pr wrote

It's more of an East Coast/ West Coast thing in my experience... In the east you drive on I-95 and out west you drive on "the 5" or "the 15" or whatever. Same applies to Interstates 90/80/70 etc.

I personally prefer using "the" which most of us do when referring to "the Turnpike" although we'd then say I-80, I-79, or whatever. So yeah, I do say I-whatever out here.

Just one of those weird regional things.

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randycanyon t1_j22jc8u wrote

Not even west Coast.

Southern California.

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drewbaccaAWD t1_j22lw6a wrote

It was "the five" and "the 90" in Seattle. Lived there for seven years (two years in San Diego).

*edit to add* Wife was from Phoenix.. "the ten" and "the 17" as well as "the eight."

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SWPenn t1_j23bwen wrote

I read the story of how that came to be in Southern California. The original freeways were built before interstate numbering. So they were simply named "the Hollywood Freeway" and "the Santa Monica Freeway," etc. When they were designated with numbers, people just inserted the number after the "the." So now it's "the 5" and "the 405," and so on.

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drewbaccaAWD t1_j22idjo wrote

80/90 through Ohio can be rough if you run into an active storm, but I doubt any worse than what you'd see at the start in Buffalo. There isn't enough of 90 through PA to even judge it, blink and you'll miss it.

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nat3215 t1_j25drgz wrote

I-90 in Ohio is in great shape. We are thawing out over here for sure

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