The Differences Between Interstates, Freeways, and Highways 

I always assumed a “freeway” was “free” of stops whereas a highway can have occasional stop signs or stop lights.

Kentucky has a network of limited, and some non-limited, Parkways throughout the state. I've driven the Bluegrass, parts of the Western Kentucky Parkway, and the Mountain Parkway from beginning to end. They go through some of the beautiful areas of the state.

I live in Wisconsin, and I'm always traveling the southeastern roads-Hwy C, KR, KD, EA, 894 bypass, 794 Lake. There isn't a road I haven't traveled in the Kenosha, Racine, and Milwaukee areas. LOL! I always find simple little journeys up and down these roads fun.

The reason Southern Californians say "the freeway" is because before these freeways were numbered, people referred to them by their names, like "the Ventura Freeway" or "the Santa Ana Freeway". When the freeways received numbers, people found it easier to say the number than say the name.

Buffalo, NY also does “the 190”, “the 990”, etc! Many people in Buffalo also use “thruway” as a general term for a limited access highway, which probably derives from the New York State Thruway

Speaking as someone who grew up in the era of family road trips, and spent nearly 15 years as a professional OTR driver, there are actually three different criteria at work here: 1 ) Operational Authority 2 ) Access & Separation (ie Junctions, Tolls, etc) 3 ) Routes & Destinations ~ Operational Authority ~ Owing to the United States being a Dual-Federal Republic, *any* public roadway under the Operational Authority of the United States Department of Transportation or an individual State Department of Transportation is automatically a "Highway". Historically, the "high" portion is both authoritative and literal; the roadway itself was commissioned by the highest regional authority and was/is elevated so as to remain operational during adverse weather conditions. County and Local routes (as might be deduced) operate under their respective Department(s) of Transportation. Rural routes which cover longer distances are typically also designated as Highways. "Parkways" traditionally fall under an Operational Authority other than an applicable Department of Transportation - either the National Park Service, a State Park Service, or other local/regional civic authority. As such, they are not required to conform with DOT specifications as to clearances, load capacities, and such. Some Parkways have rather infamous histories as they use numerous low-clearance overpasses to prevent the passage of commercial vehicles such as buses; thereby preventing 'undesirable classes of persons' from utilizing them. ~ Access & Separation ~ Freeways and Expressways are characterized by their (largely) free-flowing nature, with relatively few points of access. The primary distinction between the two is that Expressways allow for at-grade junctions with other roadways while Freeways do not; both primarily rely upon onramps/offramps for access, though Freeways do so exclusively. While a number of Expressways have since eliminated at-grade junctions along their routes, most have retained their designation as Expressways due to the next criterium. Toll Roads, Turnpikes, and similar designations are exclusive to the (archaic) practice of collecting funds directly from those using them. Most are Freeways (where toll facilities are separated from the travel lanes), though some are Expressways (where toll facilities occupy the travel lanes themselves). ~ Routes & Destinations ~ Regardless of other factors, many routes are designated so as to reflect their purpose for existing: ~ Beltways, Loops, and similar designations indicate that they provide (or initially provided) less-traveled routes circumventing areas of high traffic volumes ~ Expressways are so named to indicate that they bypass a specific area or provide less-restrictive access to/from a specific destination ~ Parkways are so named to indicate they were intended to provide a bucolic rural route (though some retain the designation despite no longer being rural) Interstates are always Highways (in both senses) and, with rare exceptions, always Freeways.

Michigan refers to their state routes as M followed by the number, for instance Woodward Avenue is also M-1. We do that since there’s an M on the top of the state route shield.

Texas has another road system, the FM (Farm to Market) roads that are more like a county road system.

My understanding with Missouri is that the letter routes (H, AA, etc.) is a secondary state route, similar to Texas' Farm-to-Market or Ranch-to-Market routes.

There are parkways and expressways as well - and if I remember correctly, the first American limited-access road (Long Island Motor Parkway, 1908) was called a parkway. Thinking outside of the US, there's the UK where you can drive on a motorway or dual-carriage way. :)

Trafficway in Kansas and Missouri, specifically in the Topeka and Kansas City metros, is another hyper-regional naming convention.

I would love to see a video like this on names for different municipalities. Both the different levels and regional variants such as parishes, burrows, hundreds, etc.

My mom lived on the East Coast for a few years in her 20s and has always remarked how much easier it is to navigate out West. Partially because there is more land and fewer cities to work with, but mainly because of the classification systems you’ve pointed out here. We live in a rural area in WA, so the options are paved city road, dirt county road, little state highways, or the big freeways. Predictably, the closer you get to the metropolitan areas, the more congested it gets and the more linked roads there are, but out in the rural areas, it’s much more straightforward.

Texas has FM (Farm to Market) and RR (Ranch Roads) that you did not discuss where they fit in. Texas also has state highways TX 36, for example.

As a fan of geography, I really enjoy your videos.

In Southern and Central California we say “the” before the number, like “The 405.” But in the Bay Area and Northern California people drop “the” before the number, and just say the number, like “5.”

In Nebraska, (by the DOT itself) an expressway is referred to 4 lane divided highways, running from one city to another. Here’s how the DOT labels the rest Street: street, avenue, road, drive, anything maintained by the city County road: Roads maintained by the county, typically gravel grid roads or blacktops County Spurs/Links: paved roads maintained by the county that connect one highway to another or a highway to a municipality Highway: a road used to connect distances, usually a state or US highway and 2 lanes Expressway: stated above Freeway: A 4+ lane divided highway with controlled access, used to connect areas quickly Interstate: a controlled access freeway part of the federal program

Weirdly, outside of socal, the other place where people refer to expressways with "The" is.... Buffalo, NY. We have a bunch of named routes (and the Thruway, which in WNY is the 90), and it came about for the same reason.

Every Interstate is a freeway, but not every freeway is an Interstate. Every freeway is a highway, but not every highway is a freeway. Expressway is used almost interchangeably with freeway

Quick thing about the county roads in Missouri - they're actually state "supplemental" highways, but they're named by county.

Very nice information and very nice pictures as references. However I had huge trouble mashing all the info together. A flipchart listing points would probably help with this. Sort of like a power point slide. I have subscribed and I am interested to see what you make in the future. Greetings from Germany

In Western New York, we also put "the" in front of the expressway, The 90 or Thruway, The 33 (state route) or Kensington, etc. We also have state routes that go from a 2 lane road to a 6 lane expressway like the 33 that I have mentioned before, and in Rochester, we have interstates like the I-490 and I-590 that both turn into state routes NY 490 and NY 590 while still being an expressway.

Well, even county roads can be fully-fledged freeways...at least in the case of Clark County, NV. "FREE" in "Freeway" implies traffic that is FREE-flowing when transitioning from one such highway to another with separated grades. It has nil to do with tolls.

Partly as a result of the Francis Scott Key Bridge disaster I've waded into the world of U.S. road trip videos, mostly around Baltimore and, as a Brit, it's been very interesting looking at the different classes of road travelled upon and trying to compare them to our roads, with the aid of a Swiss Kümmerly + Frey Washington - Philadelphia road map, at 1:350,000 scale. I think I'd probably make the following parallels - Interstate/Motorway, U.S. Highway/Trunk A Road, State Highway/Regular A Road and County Highway/B Road. Thanks for spelling out the historical background, B.G.

I grow up in Racine in SE WI. I remember that they were called County Trunks.

We have a few Expressways in Dallas as well, but generally "highway" or "freeway" for most.

Overall a great video, but the short descriptions of the Interstates and the US highways missed the goal posts by a wide margin. Military transportation and logistics are interesting, but are not even the primary justification of the IHS. The Interstates bolster(ed) national defense in a very indirect way. They were designed for civilian transportation and for commerce. Full stop. US Highways are also not nationally funded or maintained. Like all highways they are maintained by the states. In terms of actual strategic defense networks there is the National Highway System, a part of National Intermodal Transportation System, which is the infrastructural component of domestic military transportation. Actual military transportation operations use sea, air, and rail components domestically for most heavy equipment movement because *the Interstates are not designed for the transportation of heavy military hardware.*

I use motorways to refer to access controlled highway 4 lanes plus on the road. For two lane limited access controlled highways, 1 each direction, I refer it to a partially access highway.

Just to add my two cents ; In the Baltimore area .. just saying the term "Highway" refers to the interstate, and if we're referring specifically to an interstate, we'd say i-95 ... albiet, we often just say "83" or 696" instead of saying "i". If we're talking small roads, you'd put the name before it, like Pulaski Highway, which is a state highway, but I find myself just calling it by it's number as well... or even dropping "highway" from it and saying "Pulaski". Never use Freeway or Expressway, although there are a few highways called an "Expressway", lol I've never said , "imma get on the expressway". Oh, and then Turnpikes are specific roads like the NJ turnpike & PA turnpike.

I’m from Milwaukee sometimes it’s called a breeze way too 😊👍 love Wisconsin to easy to get around the state

Even in Toronto, Canada, we use “The” to refer to divided limited-access highways eg: The 401, The 407, and the 403.

In the Detroit, MI area, we have a lot of named freeways, (The Jeffries Freeway, Chrysler Freeway, The Lodge Freeway, etc.) but we also have at least one expressway (The Willow Run Expressway). We use 'The' when we use the names of the roads, but we never use 'The' when referring to the numbers. Also, our state roads aren't referred to "SR" or a State prefix like in a lot of states, but just with an 'M', so it's not SR 10, or MI 10, just M 10.

Bit of background on the "the" before freeway names in LA. When they were originally built, they were named after key areas that the freeway passed through, such as I-210 being named "the Foothill Freeway". Eventually, so many more were built that the numbers became the colloquial names, although the official titles remain today. So, we dropped the wordy name but kept the "the".

Lettered highways in Missouri are not county roads but parts of the state highway system. They are a state secondary system, not unlike the FM and RM roads here in Texas. Another regional oddity is that in the Kansas City area, they turn things around to say things like "50 Highway" instead of "Highway 50." US 11 through some of the southwestern suburbs of Birmingham, Alabama, is called the "Bessemer Super Highway." It's four-lane divided with intersections and crossovers.

You need to talk about the us numbered highway system more

In South Florida we use numbers for interstates and names for expressways. "Take 95 to Golden Glades and take the Palmetto South and take that to the Gratigny. For tourists I'll try to use numbers or signage."take 95 North to 836 West and follow the airport signs". US highways I'll eother use local strret nanes since Florida can be horrible numbering stuff. "Make a left on 5th Avenue North" instead of "make a left on alternate 19" In an area where I don't know the local street name or If it has none "Make a right on US 27". Some numbers or names I will use the word "the" like "take the 112".

Great video! Here in SE WI in the Milwaukee area we use a whole bunch of different terms for the freeways. A lot of people call the freeways "highways." What ive noticed is that a lot of people just say "the highway", even though there are a whole lot of different freeways. A lot of the shorter length freeways are just known by their names such as the lake fwy, stadium fwy, and fond du lac fwy. Some people say the numbers like 794, 175, 145, etc. A lot of people also call 894 "the bypass" because its the only bypass around here. Same with the airport spur (119) where people just say the spur. The mainlines are really just known by their numbers and some people say it with the I or without it.

You mentioned the named expressways in Chicago... where I grew up. I've got an interesting story about that as my wife is from Ohio. When traveling in the Chicago metro area, I'll turn on a news radio station to listen to the traffic reports, and she can't make heads or tails of them, whereas they make complete sense to me. It truly is almost like another language. "20 minutes outbound on the Dan Ryan" and she has to ask me what that means. LOL.

Two things, The lettered roads in Missouri are state, not county routes. There are county routes, but they are usually given quadruple numbers and are usually unpaved. In North Carolina, there are no county maintained roads. They're all maintained by the state, and are divided up into two categories, PR (primary route) and SR (secondary). All roads have numbers, PR roads have numbers 999 or less and are usually known by their number. SR routes and 1000 and higher, and usually known by their given name. SR routes do function sort of as county routes and change if they come to a county line. But, they are maintained by the state DOT.

Wis Hwy 29 is a major east west four lane divided freeway/expressway from Green Bay to the Twin Cities. On rural areas along STH 29 US 10 53 151 is a expressway that has driveways low volume cross roads

US Highways are actually not "upkept by the country." US Highways are just state highways that are numbered using a coordinated national numbering system. They're built and maintained by the states. They do get federal funding, but it's the same federal funding available to all state highways. I believe the "the" used by Californians actually comes from them originally saying "the 405 freeway". Over time, "freeway" was dropped and it just became "the 405."

Grew up in northern IL, and I specifically remember a regional map that differentiated tollways (toll booths) and freeways (no toll booths). I-90 is a tollway, and I-39 is a freeway, and they're both highways

I didn't know you grew up here in Wisconsin. I'm from West Allis and love your channel and content. Keep it up.

I was interested enough in this topic to click the link. When I heard you were from WI, I knew I had to sub. My husband was born, and raised in MN. So was I. I have lived most of my life in WI. I have come to understand the system in WI much better, but his family still lives in MN so I get so many questions.

My county in inland southern California still has a few county routes. There used to be signs for it in my city but those have rotted and disappeared, but if you find the route out to the rural area you'll still see R-3 signs. Definitely antiquated, but California used to be more interesting in the old days to me.

Thank you!

Thanks for showing love to "the" L.A. freeway system."I took the 57 to the 10 to the 101." That's our lingo!

Interesting topic and one I've thought about. WIth the rise of toll roads around the Dallas area where I live, the term "freeway" no longer feels accurate for a lot of roads. My husband and I tend to use the generic term "Big Road" to indicate a limited access highway whether it's free or tolled. This isn't really a regional variation though. Just our family term for the roadways with us usually indicating specific roads by name (most often using a number such as "I-35E" or "635" or in the case of most local toll roads, by a nickname such as "the Bush", "the DNT", etc.).

There is a road that heads to the Fort Wayne International Airport in Indiana that is named the “ Airport Expressway” while seinfeld and divided highway

Fun fact: the opening still shows one of the most accident plagued, yet ignored, areas of i5 in Washington State.

My hometown exit...Nutley Street off I-66 to Fairfax,VA.

The definition of "freeway" from Merriam-Webster: 1: an expressway with fully controlled access 2: a highway without toll fee

Omaha-Council Bluffs uses both expressway and freeway. Freeway seems to be reserved for the high-speed limited access freeways (North Fwy/US-75; Ford Fwy/I-480; Kennedy Fwy/US-75), expressway for higher capacity arterials with stoplights (Storz Expy, South Expy). Road is also used for high speed arterials and stroads in West Omaha (West Dodge Road; West Center Road/US-275/NE-92; West Maple Road/NE-64; Blair High Road/NE-133).

38 year resident of Orange County here. Usually refer to the interstates as I-5, & I-10 and so forth we typically use the word the before one of the non-interstate freeways. Such as the 22 freeway, or the 57 freeway, or the 60 Freeway.

My parents called freeways "expressways" and we're from Michigan. In my way of thinking, an "expressway" is technically like a freeway (or a long, somewhat wide highway), but with a number of surface intersections. US-60 once it leaves Phoenix going east becomes an "expressway" with notations that the "freeway ends" and "divided highway continues". US-2 in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan warns drivers who start going west on it from the Mackinac Bridge that it is "NOT a freeway". Still, it does depend on where you're from. Speaking of being from Michigan, I didn't see a county road sign there until I got to Livingston County. Signed county roads kind of don't exist in SE Michigan, but they can in other bigger cities. As for a couple of reasons why in SoCal they use "the" is because in the case of the 110 and 210, they consist of I-110 and SR-110 (or C-110 as I like to call it lol) and the 210 is part I-210 and C-210. The 215 in Las Vegas is the same (or was) as the first 15 miles of it is I-215, and the rest of it was CR-215 (but is planning to become entirely I-215).

Sometimes there will 2 lane limited access highways. They're referred to as a "Super 2" . Vermont has one. U.S. Hwy 7, or Route 7 as the locals call it.

Where I live in Alexandria Louisiana, we have the Pineville Expressway across the river in Pineville. It serves to connect all the different highway in Pineville on one road, to Alexandria.

A turnpike, here on Long Island, are more like what you called county roads. Interesting

Nice video! Going to do one on the Baltimore bridge?

In terms of "freeway" vs "expressway," I have always seen the different to be that a "freeway" is limited/controlled access (i.e. requires an interchange to enter) and an "expressway" is a divided highway with no stop signs or stop lights, but is not limited access (i.e. any side road that encounters said highway also provides access to the highway). Examples close to where I live are the "expressway" from the East end of Duluth to Two Harbors and the expressway on US Highway 53 from just south of the junction with US Hwy 2 South of Superior, WI until just North of Rice Lake, WI where it turns into a limited access freeway until the interchange with I-94 near Eau Claire.

Thanks. Seems you read your comments, and then take action! Yes, we have no 'freeways' in the NYC area- you pay to go everywhere. BTW, they say kids from LA are bad at arithmatic: becasue they say " the 2 plus the 4 equals the 6."

Californians PROBABLY use "the" with numbered freeways because they all had NAMES prior to the Interstate designation. Thus, "The Pasadena Freeway" eventually became "The 110" in an organic way. The WEIRDEST roadway nomenclature I've encountered was when I was in Kansas City last summer, which uses the somewhat vague term "Trafficways" for some of their roads.

I think that an "expressway" is best suited to urban areas where a limited access road is used to streamline traffic and serves as a way to bypass many intersections that exist in such areas. I believe that outside of the US, Highways can include many forms of unpaved roads.

I wish there was more of an elaboration of parkways. also I think it's noteworthy that expressway always refers to an untold road

Santa Clara County in California has Expressways. They are multi lane, limited access roads but with traffic signals. There's Capitol, Central, Lawrence, Montague, and San Tomas.

Expressway is NOT used universally in the Boston area. Some stretches of I-93 are referred to as expressways, like the southeast expressway, but more often than not, other stretches of interstate are more commonly referred to as highways, or just by their number- and sometimes the wrong one :) Large stretches of I-95 are still called 128 by locals. All other numbered roads are called Route ##- whether it is a state route or US highway. No such thing as country roads.

Remember, freeway originally meant “free flow” not necessarily “free to drive”. Freeways *can be* and often are free, but toll roads can also be considered a freeway as long as they are built to free-flowing, limited access standards.

Nassau County, NY has a bunch of county roads under its jurisdiction. But when faced with the choice of changing out their orange signs for the standard blue ones, they just took down all of the old signs instead

Another excellent breakdown

in central ohio they’re usually the numbers. 270, 71, 315, etc. not just interstates either. though apparently other cities don’t call their outerbelts (270) the outerbelt. the freeways have names but they’re rarely used except “innerbelt”. ex: jack nicholas fwy is 270, olentangy fwy is SR 315, but most people just call them 315 or 270.

As far east as Durham NC, there's the Durham Freeway which connects I-85 with I-40.

I- 55 from Lake shore drive out to the 294 is called the Stevenson. 294 from 94 North side to South Side by Indiana is called the Tri State Tollway . The 355 from i-80 to 290 is called the Veterans Memorial Tollway. I-390 by Ohare airport is Elgin O hare Expressway. I-90 from Dan Ryan to Indiana is Chicago Skyway

Heya from Madison, WI!

This was how I always interpreted these terms. Highway: An umbrella term for any major roadway that connects 2 population centers together. Freeway: A special type of highway where crossroads are at a separate grade, and access between the highway and side roads is done with ramps instead of an intersection, and (typically) has 2 or more lanes going each way. Tollway: Similar to a freeway, except with a toll. Expressway: Also similar to a freeway, with a higher, freeway like speed limit, is divided, and (typically) has 2 ore more lanes each way, but unlike a freeway, regular intersections are allowed, even ones with stoplights. Interstate: A system of controlled access highways that spreads all across the country.

Remember: You can get high on the freeway but not free on the highway and you can drive on the parkway but can't drive on the driveway 😂

in atlanta, we call our freeways similar things to Los Angeles, but just say the number. for example: “i want to take the express lanes on 75 south to 285 before getting on 400”

It drives me nuts in South Africa and Australia where they call all control access highways "freeways," of which 85% have tolls. 30 years ago, I taught school in Indonesia where all such roads are called "jalan tol" (toll road), even the free ones.

An interstates is a fast moving traffic highway but a freeway is a highway with more lanes and vehicles in it

Do what truckers do. We call the interstates the the big road. Sometimes you’ll hear them called superslabs. Everything else is cutting through the woods.

There are “expressways” in Santa Clara county.

That is interesting that you noted Californians refer to their highways as “the (5)” noticed that talking to people

Philadelphia also uses the “Expressway” term i.e. “Schuylkill Expressway” or I-76 non tolled part in Philadelphia.

Many people in Toledo, OH call freeways "E-Ways".

Free in freeway means free traffic or travel not to do with cost

There are a bunch of expressways in the south San Francisco Bay Area in California

This is so interesting. I’m from Ireland & our roads are L (local), R (regional) N (national) & M (Motorway) & most of Europe follows a similar hierarchy. When doing a road trip in the US last year I was very confused because I assumed highway was like a motorway but it could be anything

The low clearance underpasses are not made to enforce the no trucks law. It's just that most of those highways are very old and so the bridges are lower.

I live in Ohio and grew up in the Miami and NYC areas. I generally use highway for any roads that are at least 2 lanes going in opposite directions. If the highway is limited access without at grade intersections I call it either an expressway or freeway depending on whether it is tolled or not. This is without regard to whether it is an interstate highway, a U.S. Route or even a state or county road. For example I-70 and Ohio Route 8 are both freeways in my part of Ohio (at least until Route 8 has at grade crossings up in the Macedonia area when I stop calling it a freeway and just call it a highway).

As a Californian, I can attest to the usage of "the" before the highway number. My native Portlander partner and friends make fun of me for it all the time

In Louisville KY, I-264 is known and signed locally as "Watterson Expressway" and I-265 is known and signed locally as the "Snyder Freeway"

State route 165 in Wisconsin from Green Bay road to i-94 is called the Lakeview parkway in which trucks use to access Industrial Park located between the two highways

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In Michigan we all say "expressway". We never say "The Interstate". There are no toll roads in the state. We always refer to highways like Interstate 75 or I-75 or 75, US highways are US-12 or 12, state highway markers are a diamond (actually a square with the points with corners up/down) with a block letter M and the number underneath. We say M-59 or 59. If we hear someone say "route 43" or "43" or "highway 43" we know that they are from out of state. Some states like Georgia and Florida use the official designation as SR (for state road) but people there never say "Ess Are"

Yup! I'm from NJ/NYC Area and its true! Trucks and commercial vehicles are not allowed on Parkways and must use Expressways or more local roads! Many of the Parkways were built in the early 1900s (1930s) and are the inspiration of the urban planner named Robert Moses. And many of these roads were not built to handle larger vehicles such as trucks and tractor trailers. A lot of these Parkways have narrower lanes, low overpasses and very sharp and twisting curves as many of them follow the routes of rivers (like Bronx River Parkway, Saw Mill Parkway etc). There are signs everywhere throughout the city that warn trucks and commercial vehicles to stay on expressways not parkways! There are certain exceptions such as the beginning (or end depending how you look at it) of the Grand Central Parkway immediately after the RFK Bridge. Trucks entering into Queens from the RFK bridge are allowed to stay on the GCP until the exit for I-278 West (Brooklyn-Queens Expressway) where they must exit!

Confusing the matter further is the US highways that run through my area: US 31 and 131, function almost exactly like interstate highways. 75mph speed limit, on-ramps, exits, etc. The only difference I can tell is 1) it wasn't always like this since we have the old US 31, too, and yeah, that's more like a state road. It didn't become an expressway until later. 2) In a few stretches, like through Grand Haven and Holland, it slows down and becomes more like a regular city road with normal intersections and traffic lights and everything. Whereas interstates are only high speed expressways and that's all they've ever been.

I'm from Maine. Highway = any large road that generally has a higher speed limit and turnpike = anything on the scale of an interstate highways, since the Maine Turnpike (I-95) is the only major limited access highway (US-1 and US-2 also function as "Main Street" for most of the cities and towns they go through). But all the state, US, and interstate routes get called by their number (with or without the word "route," like "drive up 35 and turn on to 117" or "I live right off Route 1"). The again, we only have I-95 (Kittery to Houlton) and its bypass I-295 from Scarborough to Gardiner (195 and 395 are glorified offramps), and US routes 1 (Kittery to Fort Kent), 2 (Houlton to Gilead), 201 (Brunswick to Seboomook), 202 (Lebanon to Bangor), and 302 (Fryeburg to Portland). Some of our state routes are MASSIVE, like ME-11 going from Lebanon to Fort Kent or ME-9 going from Berwick to Baileyville, even though they're rarely the most direct point from Point A to Point B.

My view as a Mississippian: a Highway is a two lane state highway, 4 lane w center turn lane in town/city, or one of the US Route highways. A freeway/expressway is any multi lane road traversing through a city at high speeds. And the interstate is exactly was it is. Even if it runs through a city, I’ll refer to it as a freeway. And when addressing a roads’ name, I just say: • “take 55 to x” (referring to I-55) • “take 82/51 to x” (referring to US Rt 82/51) • “take 7/8 to x” (referring to MS St rt 7/8) TL:DR - I just say “take [insert number]”

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The Kingery Expressway refers to the section of Il-83 from Il-171 in Lemont to Il-390 in Bensonville. The Ronald Reagan Expressway ends at the I-290/I-88 interchange in Hillside and the name “Eisenhower Expressway” is applied to the entirety of the I-290 route.

The first road is always a dirt road in any municipalities.