In CA it is, but it seems that everywhere else I've been they use definite articles too (Ontario, for instance, and when I was driving across the US people kept referring to "the 80"). "Everywhere" is probably a sweeping generalization and I'm just not remembering the exceptions, but it seems that Northern Californians are quite unusual in this respect.
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