Yeah, I remember seeing that when I did some cross country driving in France. Once I figured it out it worked great. Everyone did it and there was a lot less congestion than in the US, till you got in Paris and that’s another story.
I’ve been to the Bay Area a few times, but I don’t recall from those trips as I didn’t drive much. Most of my driving in CA was in LA about eight to ten years ago.
I was told by the locals that cars don’t need a lic plate when you first buy them or something. Instead of a temp tag like we would have in my state there is just nothing. No rear or front plate. I guess the cops just have to pull them over to tell if the car is stolen.
The highway signs are certainly not numbered in LA. Maybe they are in other places in CA, though. Other posters have agreed with this.
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have never seen exits numbered this way. I have only seen the exit number corresponding to the nearest mile marker for the highway.
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It’s like you say in the Rocky Mountain states, which is great. In NH, MA, VT and ME I think they all are numbered by exit number and not by mile marker. Exits 31 and 32 might be a mile apart, or they might be twenty.
I never pay much notice to whether highways/freeways are numbered so I can’t say if assertions about CA are correct. But a WAG: maybe Interstates have to be numbered, state highways don’t? I am reasonably certain that Interstate 80 is numbered starting at its terminus in San Francisco. I thought Highway US-50 is numbered, maybe not, but I do remember this awesome sign (That’s in Sacramento, California. Ocean City has it’s counterpart, although apparently at least at one time one sign was wrong and transposed digits).
