"The 101"

[AAllan at AOL.COM]

The August 14 Denver Post has an article on transportation construction in
Denver that makes use of the Southern California "the" in referring to numbered
highways:

<<<One Colorado native, musing about all the traffic on C-470, commented: "I
remember when there wasn't a C-470. 'What did all these people drive on
then?"' she said she asked her husband. He replied, "The 101."

It's a funny line about a famous California highway, but he was right: It
isn't California-bashing to say that many of the drivers on T-REX grew up driving
in a land where 90-minute, 30-mile commutes are common. If they complained
about traffic here to family back home, they'd be laughed off the phone.>>>

Opinion article by Scott C. Yates; available at
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36%257E73%257E1584142,00.html

- Allan Metcalf