When most newbies move here they are immediately inundated with interchangeable names for the same highways and freeways.

Houston natives have a variety of ways they refer to the streets they use daily which might confuse people who just came to town.

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You can suss out those 'Newstonians' by the way they might sometimes add a "the" to the names of our freeways. No one born here would call I-10 West the I-10 West.

Some of us call US-59 the Southwest Freeway while past the North Loop US-59 is sometimes called the Eastex Freeway as it heads into East Texas. Since 2015 it's also been known as I-69 within the Loop 610 and points north but no one calls it that unless they are a 15-year-old boy.

We'll take "Fiddy-Nine" over "I-69" any day unless we're at bingo.

We've heard older Houstonians call I-10 East the East Freeway or even the Baytown Freeway. Still some might also call TX-146 the Baytown Freeway. It's confusing to say the least.

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US-290 is almost never called the Northwest Freeway anymore. Come to think of it we haven't heard 290 referred to without any profanity attached to it for the past decade of its reconstruction.

The Sam Houston Tollway is also referred to as Beltway 8, but no one ever says anything but the Beltway. Officially it is also called the Sam Houston Parkway in places where it's not tolled, namely on the northeast side.

Houston TranStar spokesperson Dinah Massie is about to blow your mind:

"The Beltway is actually the name of the system of service roads or feeders situated around the Sam Houston Tollway," Massie said.

She came to Houston in 1995 and remembers being confused by the myriad of names that us Houstonians use to refer to the roads that spirit us around the city. As the executive director at TranStar, Massie hears all sorts of names for Houston's freeways on a daily basis.

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Massie is of the mind that I-10 West becomes the Katy Freeway after leaving the 610 Loop, although that could be debated by others.

The names assigned to freeways don't always stick. No one, not even Nolan Ryan himself, calls TX-288 from the Brazoria-Harris county line down to Freeport the Nolan Ryan Expressway. No one ever "takes the Nolan" down to Surfside. It's simply 288, and never the South Freeway.

No one ever talks about US-90.