[fr_freak]

Californians don’t talk about “Interstate 5” or the “San Diego Freeway”. All of the roads are referred to as “THE 5” or “THE 405”.

Actually, it's more of a Socal thing. In Northern California, we always referred to freeways just by their number, i.e. I-5, 101, 99, etc. The Socallers call it the I-5, the 101, etc.

[morphing libertarian]

Never, never, never get on the 5 in Orange or LA County

[Not A Snowbird]

I don’t know, I was raised in the Bay Area and always said “the”.

Maybe it was my mother’s Turlock upbringing.

[sheana]

I liv in Bakersfield and we have kind of a mixture. 99 is just 99. She lives right off 99. I-5 is I-5. Take Taft highway out to I-5. 58 is just 58. But when we get down south we refer to everything as the. The 405. The 5
We kind of mix it up. Lol