Route planner avoiding specific road

arcon5

There's a lot of route planners / maps out there but I can't seem to find one that allows me to say

From x
To y
Avoid road z

I'm trying to look at my travel options with a bridge closed when I come home due to road works but all the avoid options on the maps I've been on all seem to say avoid motorway or avoid dual carraiheway.

Anybody know of a website that can do this?

Joe_Horner

Google maps, view the suggested route on the map, and drag it away from the bridge to an alternative.

Presumably there are alternatives fairly close by (so easy to spot) or yourvdetour is likely to take longer than the road works.

agrinnall

I think my (quite ancient) TomTom sat nav will allow this, although you'd need to be able to identify the road in a way that it likes - in theory you may be able to touch it on a map but I've never been very successful with map functions on it.

gilbert_and_sullivan

Apart from looking at a proper map and doing it the old way.

Most sat navs that have traffic function will show a road closed or badly delayed if on route (assuming the receiver has picked the right info up, and that someone has sent it in the first place), simply just press 'avoid' and it should recalculate you around the problem.

The problem with this is that most people blindly following satnav will all end up on the obvious diversion, hence always better IMHO to check for yourself and sometimes better to take your own not quite so obvious diversion for a map to avoid the bottlenecks the rest will be in.

AdrianC

gilbert_and_sullivan wrote: »

Apart from looking at a proper map and doing it the old way.

Indeed. One of these days, GPS will be unavailable, and two-thirds of the country will be unable to get to work or the supermarket.

arcon5

Ok,

Well i'm going Doncaster to Lea (Gainsborough)......

And maybe somebody could help.... because unless i'm missing a bridge somewhere over the River Trent it looks like my 22 mile commute is about to become a 40 mile journey via Durham bridge onwards towards Torksey.

gilbert_and_sullivan

Looks like it, the top route via S!!!!horpe might be an alternative but usefully the junction layout off the M180 takes you up onto Scunny to come back down, then you'll have the joy of Gainsborough town both ways.

The only good thing about the south route is that Elkesley roadworks are just about finished, so the A1/A57 route will at least be a top gear cruise nearly all the way.

Train any good for the duration instead?

agrinnall

I think you're right, that certainly seems to be the shortest route. It's a pity there's no exit from the M180 directly onto the A159 as that might be shorter (although possibly slower through Gainsborough) but I don't see a realistic alternative.