Do you have Greek and Roman place names like Camillus, Cicero, Cincinnatus, Corinth, Fabius, Ilion, Junius, Macedon, Marcellus, Pompey, Romulus, Scipio, Sempronius, Sparta, Ulysses, and Virgil?
Yes=New York.
New York doesn’t quite make the 12-hour mark but Google Maps gives 8.5 hours from Montauk to Niagara Falls. People forget how long Long Island is.
How much of Alaska has state or interstate highways?
If you’re taking the LIE from Montauk to the Throg’s Neck to start with you’ll easily pass the 12 hour mark.
I did a check on this up in San Jose- which is certainly not SoCal. people did say the 5. Less emphasis than a died in the wool SoCal, but it was still there. The fact that people move back and forth , and traffic reporters do too, means that this is not longer a line in the sand. Not to mention, there are great long involved debates as who where SoCal ends and NoCal starts.
We have a few here.
Do People talk about dropping over to Disneyland for a few hours? = SoCal.
Are there Taco trucks/stands everywhere= SoCal, but maybe some other SW states? (sadly, despite trumps promise there is not a taco truck on every corner 
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More or less, yes.
Yep.
We even did the hat dance in serapes we made ourselves- sorta.
Here in SoCal that is a rather large and tasty deep sea fish, not very common.
San Pedro? The grapevine??
There are a few in SoCal.
From wiki:
The Interstate Highway System in Alaska comprises four highways that cover 1,082.22 miles (1,741.66 km). The longest of these is Interstate A-1 (A-1), at 408.23 miles (656.98 km) long, while the shortest route is A-3, at 148.12 miles (238.38 km) long.
According to Google Maps, from Homer to Deadhorse (via AK 1, 3, 2 and 11) is 1,072 miles and takes 21 hours 32 minutes. However, AK 11 (the Dalton Highway or North Slope Haul Road) may not exactly meet the criteria for a major highway; still, stopping at the junction of 2 and 11 leaves 657 miles and 12 hours 16 minutes.
Hah - that’s something I’ve noted on the boards before. A movie or TV show referring to an East Coast highway like that. “The 95”. X-files did it once that I recall, and the Brendan Fraser version of Journey To The Center Of The Earth did as well. Pretty sure 95 was the highway in question both times. It’s “95”, or maybe “I-95”.
To be fair, NAMED highways can be referred to with “the”. The New York Thruway. The Whitehurst Freeway (which is NOT a freeway!). The Pennsylvania Turnpike.
But if I’m calling any of those by their numbered routes, I’m on 87/90 (or I-87/I-90), 29 (or route 29 or US 29), or 76 (or I-76). In the case of NY, I’ll likely call it by the route; in the case of the PA turnpike, I’ll call it turnpike. In the case of the Whitehurst, I call it “Crap. I got on this by mistake again. Google, Take Me Away!”.
Good point by both of you. Named highways get prefaced with ‘the’, I noted ‘the LIE’ in this thread. Typical of the New York Parkways like the Taconic and the Sawmill. Other highways there like the Expressway and the Van Wyck too. In Philadelphia there’s the Schuykill or the Turnpike. Bridges everywhere get a ‘the’ I think. Off the top of my head I can’t recall any numbered routes that are referenced with ‘the’ other than in California.
You sure you guys aren’t from California?
I’ve seen them in upstate New York, also - quite recently. I’ve seen the buggies themselves a few times (including once when there was a whole long line of them; must have been on a Sunday or something).
My favorite buggy-sighting, though, was in Strasburg, PA, when we saw a buggy going through the drive-through window at a bank.
Do the locals smugly insist that I-64 be referred to as “Highway 40” (“Highway Farty” if you’re south of Farty-Far), even if doing so confuses their out-of-town guests?
Yes= St. Louis.
I am.
How can these be called “interstate” highways? None of those roads lead to other states.
Wait until you hear about interstate H-1!
How many times has this been asked and answered on the Dope?
What a stupid question. How would I know that?
It’s one of the great mysteries in life.
I’m sorry, I thought you were being sarcastic since it’s come up so often. It’s the Interstate Highway System. Some of the highways cross state lines, many others are all contained within one state. They have a common set of regulations for everything from route numbering to construction standards.
All good and my apologies for reacting harshly. Things haven’t been the best around chez chef of late.
I believe this is why highways in SoCal get the “the”. Many of them are better known by their names than by their route numbers. It’s almost always “the Pasadena Freeway”, not route 110, or “the Santa Monica Freeway”, not Interstate 10.