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Re:Navigation Apps Turn Some Quiet Neighborhoods into Traffi... by cmurf on Sunday December 24, 2017 @03:12PM (#16001109)
I liked Waze when it was suggesting seemingly out of the way secondary and tertiary routes, that had less stop and go traffic. But the deep dive into neighborhoods I found offensive, and inconvenient (stick shift, stop signs every block). So I removed Waze from my phone.

And now Google Maps has starting doing it. They have an avoid highways option, now they need an avoid neighborhoods option.

Re:Navigation Apps Turn Some Quiet Neighborhoods into Traffi... by erik_landerholm on Sunday December 24, 2017 @06:38PM (#16001858)
They are doing “it” because often, in places like LA where people have refused to fund public transport or more roads or tunnels or anything, it can be the difference between a 40 minute drive/ride to LAX and a 2 hour one.
Re:Navigation Apps Turn Some Quiet Neighborhoods into Traffi... by tqkxzugoaupvwqr on Sunday December 24, 2017 @08:05PM (#16002120)
Can’t speak for your case, but in general Google Maps and Apple Maps include real-time traffic into travel time and suggest alternative routes, even through seemingly slow areas, if they are estimated to be faster than the original congested high speed route.