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entwisi · 12-02-2007, 13:53

Strangely enough I had never considered a non motorway route to work except last Thursday I had to pick my niece up from Urmston on the way home (She lives in France normally but is over and has been staying with us for a few days). Anyway, I set off from work and stuck the address I needed to get to into TomTom on my phone. I didn't check what route it gave me as I wasn't in a particular rush so I left it up to TT. I was rather surprised though as i got down the route a bit to see it directing me away from the motorway. In the end it took me a completely non motorway route to where I needed to be. From there I knew an easy route through Manchester to home. I reckon travelling at the time I do I could do the whole journey in about 80 mins compared to about 60 mins for a totally motorway route. I bet there would even be some optimisation i could do to it as well.

12-02-2007, 13:53	#11
entwisi God Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Up Bash Posts: 7,827 Blog Entries: 3 Liked: 44 times Rep Power: 4390	Re: Road pricing by the mile – yes or no! Strangely enough I had never considered a non motorway route to work except last Thursday I had to pick my niece up from Urmston on the way home (She lives in France normally but is over and has been staying with us for a few days). Anyway, I set off from work and stuck the address I needed to get to into TomTom on my phone. I didn't check what route it gave me as I wasn't in a particular rush so I left it up to TT. I was rather surprised though as i got down the route a bit to see it directing me away from the motorway. In the end it took me a completely non motorway route to where I needed to be. From there I knew an easy route through Manchester to home. I reckon travelling at the time I do I could do the whole journey in about 80 mins compared to about 60 mins for a totally motorway route. I bet there would even be some optimisation i could do to it as well. __________________ Ian Technical God, No 1 Geek And Linux Guru Have you seen my Flickr pictures?