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Originally Posted by gadget
Why is it called a 'freeways? ... nothing free about any of that! And I thought the M25 was bad.
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...because on the east coast they had "Turnpikes" where you pay a toll.
The I-405 had a bad reputation even for LA. Heading south on I-5, the I-405 branches off, north of Los Angeles to hug the coast, passes LAX and rejoins I-5 at the El Toro "Y" in Orange County, at that reunion it's 22 lanes wide.
Fun fact: odd number interstate highways run north/south, even number interstate hwys run east /west