Daniel BowenSeems like people will put up with anything to avoid driving through the inner west. There are multiple tolled and non-tolled routes which are about an hour quicker, even at 7pm. #Melbourne #roads
the war on cars, not drugs@danielbowen Many many (most?) people don't use Google Maps and will naturally assume the Big Direct Road will be quickest.
Dan@Bugs5000 @danielbowen but more people using those alternatives is not a good thing, surely?
Google Maps is a driver of rat running.
@Bugs5000 @chillikebab Citylink and Footscray Road aren’t exactly minor roads. It only becomes a problem if lots of people start diverting off the major roads imho.
@chillikebab @danielbowen Sure! Google Maps is exploiting a road system that doesn't adequately calm streets for people outside cars. The good thing is not so many people use Google Maps.
(My partner refuses to use Google Maps when she drives, and when I drive her car she hates that I use it, thinking it an abdication of responsibility for route-planning and a giving up of general awareness to an opaque central computerised authority. I suspect a lot of (usually older) people feel similarly.)