Route planner that lets me avoid a certain road

born_again

Echo Waze, as it takes traffic into account. But you may find that when routing you through the roads works, it is because it is quicker than other routes. Due to everyone else having the same idea.

Mildly_Miffed

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6681695/route-planner-that-lets-me-avoid-a-certain-road

Can I suggest the old-school solution here…?

An AA atlas for the planning, a piece of paper and a biro for notes and prompts for the first time, then a functioning short-term memory?

SiliconChip

Given that you say "nearby" do you really need to use a route planner at all? Surely you know your own area well enough to find alternative routes.

Nasqueron

Google own Waze, the underlying data is basically shared between the two including police reports

Maps actually tells you "there is a 10 minute delay ahead, you are still on the fastest route". I've tended to find the alternative routes are only quicker if you are among the first to pick them, otherwise you get every Maps/Waze user trundling along country lanes in a procession and probably don't save anything as it doesn't update the slow traffic until you are already part of it!

born_again

Yes google do own Waze, but it is still a separate system & works in a different way. Or at least does not show the same routing.

But agree that once people start following updated routes, they can end up slower.

jimjames

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82122176#Comment_82122176

Google maps is incredibly frustrating that even when a road is closed long term it will still think you can go that way.

Frozen_up_north

Another vote for Waze, when my OH was in hospital in Grimsby, Waze often found a different route each day but I was never stuck in a queue.

It warns of speed camera vans too…