On 3/28/2011 12:28 PM, Alan Mintz wrote:
In southern California, in my experience, people do not use exit numbers when giving directions - they use what we would call the name of the exit, which is usually the name of the street on which the offramp terminates*. One reason is that exit numbering was an afterthought - in process since the 80s I think - and is still not complete. Another is that, for people that have traveled the area extensively, the name of the exit gives one a far better mental picture of where an exit is than the postmile-related exit number.
Yes, California is a special case because they were so late to adopt exit numbers. But the majority of exit_to signage is simply the cross street(s) the exit leads to, which is already on the map.
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