Reply #41: We Californians have better things to do than to dot our language with useless abbreviations. [View All]

Unless you're trying to determine whose budget gets to pay for the potholes, most of us don't care whether our roadways are interstates, state routes, county junctions, county routes, or plain old highways.

Any multi-lane road connecting two towns, that also has stop signs/lights and intersections, is a highway. Any multi-lane road connecting two towns, that has ramps and lacks intersections, is a freeway. The use of any I- or SR-, or CJ/R- beyond that is redundant...we simply need the designation.

To get to the best city in America from L.A., you take the 5 north to 580 west, merge onto westbound 80 when you hit the maze, and hop off after you cross the bridge ;)

Litering that sentence with "i-" this and "highway" that just seems...wrong.