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Old 08-03-2021, 06:36 AM
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Originally Posted by midiwiz View Post
all these suggestions are great, but your best bet is to use Waze it will get you around issues most times, but things like what you are describing just may be faster than other routes also It does a great job. you can also use it to figure out when the best time to leave will be.
Even if you know your route, using WAZE can be a huge timesaver.

One of our trips north a few months back, there was a closure of 95 North in South Carolina. Waze said "take the next exit". Traffic was moving at full speed at the time.

I took the exit, it ran us through a park, around a couple weird intersections and finally got us parallel to 95. It was parked. People were out, sitting on their hoods.

About 10 minutes of zigging and zagging, we were back on the highway and back to full speed and traffic was lighter, presumably because of all the people not using traffic-aware applications.

Google maps works too, but I prefer waze.