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What do you call a road you can drive faster than 55 mph on?

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Contributor: P'Gell P'Gell
I live in Chicago. The ones you don't pay to drive on are Highways. The ones you pay are Tollways. As in Philly, NO ONE here says "Freeway."

Freeways are for those hippies in California.
03/18/2011
Contributor: liilii080 liilii080
Highway or interstate. Freeway is not in my vocabulary and neither is escalator.
03/18/2011
Contributor: *Huxley* *Huxley*
Highway.
03/18/2011
Contributor: hive83 hive83
Quote:
Originally posted by El-Jaro
It's a pet peeve of mine when people use highway and freeway interchangeably. I'm pretty sure I'm one of only a few people this bothers.

What do you call a road that has a speed limit of over 55 mph, multi-lanes (2 or more) with ... more
Here it's interstate.
03/18/2011
Contributor: Bunnycups Bunnycups
I say highway or parkway. Never freeway.
03/18/2011
Contributor: Kayla Kayla
I don't think I've ever called anything a highway or freeway. I just say "Road" or "Street". Oops?
03/18/2011
Contributor: married with children married with children
i call it the fastest way home from work.
03/18/2011
Contributor: toxie m toxie m
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Originally posted by Tori Rebel
Same here, which makes sense because we're only a couple hours apart. But more than anything we just say '80' or '287' - just go by the numbers, not the titles.
Yeah, for me it's the highway, but more often just the 401
03/18/2011
Contributor: DeliciousSurprise DeliciousSurprise
In NYC I don't know that we use any of those terms. I mean, we have the (belt) PARKWAY, or the (hudson river) DRIVE, or the (nys) THRUWAY, or (interstate) 287, but... Well, Highway came into my head way before freeway, so that's what I picked.
03/19/2011
Contributor: Lithaewyn Lithaewyn
Interstate. I've lived both in North Dakota and now in Texas, and both places we say interstate! Because that's what it's called... Unless it's a highway, which are, well, not interstates.

For example, I-35, I-29... The I stands for interstate... Other roads are highways, but in many cases the speed limit is 55 for those.
03/19/2011
Contributor: wetone123 wetone123
Everyone here calls it the expressway
03/19/2011
Contributor: onehotmomma onehotmomma
I live off of I-5, and it's called I-5 or the freeway, lol. there are 50MPH roads, and then the freeway which is 60-70MPH, we don't have any roads in between 50 and 60 though
03/19/2011
Contributor: Taylor Von Taylor Von
I just say Highway that way they all are the same. It is actually Interstate least here anyways.
03/19/2011
Contributor: Solar Ray Solar Ray
"Highway" or simply "road" here. Maybe we are too backwoods to go with all those high fallootin' names you all got in the big cities.
03/26/2011
Contributor: Taylor Taylor
I'm pretty sure I've never said the word freeway before.

I usually say interstate, but will sometimes say highway. Mostly though I will just say the number of the one I'm talking about like I-70
03/26/2011
Contributor: Rossie Rossie
My interpretation of a freeway is when it passes through busy cities and are multi-laned. I call them highways when they pass through wide open rural areas. But then, we usually refer to them by their numbers only.
08/20/2011
Contributor: ~LaUr3n~ ~LaUr3n~
Neither... it's an expressway lol
08/20/2011
Contributor: ~LaUr3n~ ~LaUr3n~
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Originally posted by removedacnt
I drive in Illinois a lot! And believe me the "highways" are not FREE! LOL! Never heard the term escalator for that.
LMAO tollway
08/20/2011
Contributor: GeekWife GeekWife
Here in Ohio, it's a highway or just the number (70, 71, etc.). I don't think I've heard anyone even use the term freeway outside of my grandparents' generation.
08/20/2011
Contributor: ThoughtsAblaze ThoughtsAblaze
I used to always call them highways (even if they were interstates) until I started driving and paying more attention to maps. Now I pay closer attention to maps and call them the appropriate name (highway/interstate + #).
08/20/2011
Contributor: Diabolical Kitty Diabolical Kitty
Funny actually, I say both freeway and highway at times.
08/21/2011
Contributor: Nissa Nissa Nissa Nissa
Quote:
Originally posted by El-Jaro
It's a pet peeve of mine when people use highway and freeway interchangeably. I'm pretty sure I'm one of only a few people this bothers.

What do you call a road that has a speed limit of over 55 mph, multi-lanes (2 or more) with ... more
I use both but mostly highway. I hate driving on the highway.
08/21/2011
Contributor: JRabbits JRabbits
I'd call it an Interstate if I had to pick anything, but honestly I just call it a road.
08/21/2011