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I lived in Portland for about 4 years (this was 4 years ago). Recently moved back there for a period of 6 months and then moved away again. The entire area chan
by rhacker 9y ago
I lived in Portland for about 4 years (this was 4 years ago). Recently moved back there for a period of 6 months and then moved away again. The entire area changed traffic wise to what I would call insanity. If you use Google Maps or whatever it routes everyone off the main freeways now, and dumps everyone into the farm communities. It's really sad because people don't change their asshole driving behavior. The people in these farms now have to listen to BOOM BOOM BOOM of radios all the time because of the rest of the infrastructure being totally blasted.
I personally don't believe Waze is to blame, I'm pretty sure it's google maps (same company) but only Alphabet has the numbers on both.
- tjr225 9y agoI see this in the Seattle area as a commuter as well. By the time you've been redirected to the surrounding rural communities it's too late - so have hundreds of other drivers. To pretend that these two lane roads are built for the traffic of I5 IS insanity. Sometimes I see a suggestion from Waze and can't help but laugh at my phone.
- dte22 9y agoWaze does distribute redirected traffic if there are other alternatives. I've seen it first hand on the 401 in Toronto; an accident occurred, I was routed one way to clear it and the person beside me had Waze went another way.. 20km later.. we are both back on the 401! Same car, same person, both using Waze.
- tjr225 9y agoThat's one of the difficulties of commuting the I5 corridor. We're stuck between a huge body of water and a mountain range - there really aren't that many alternatives - and the ones that do exist are already heavily trafficked.