Logical-Error-7233 t1_iu8iow8 wrote on October 29, 2022 at 11:40 AM

Reply to comment by UltravioletClearance in OMG Traffic and WTF Waze by nebirah

I was wondering why the Morrissey Blvd exit on 93S always seems so busy lately. Lived in the dot for 8 years and wasn't usually backed up. Then one day my wife was using Waze and it tried to have us get off there only to get back on at Neponset ave to avoid the minor slowdown where the zipper lane begins. That's friggin nuts, the lights and draw bridge if you're unlucky enough there can back up really bad. All to avoid slowing down for two miles.

UltravioletClearance t1_iu9gdb1 wrote on October 29, 2022 at 4:23 PM

I live off of Lake Street in Arlington. I can tell when Waze tells everyone to use Lake Street and Mass Ave as a cut through to Alewife Brook Parkway because I can't get out of my neighborhood.

Logical-Error-7233 t1_iua96xl wrote on October 29, 2022 at 7:47 PM

It's really bad in the outer neighborhoods. I remember one time I took an uber to get someplace in Porter square from the south end and Waze took us through about twenty quiet neighborhood with a thousand turns to eventually take a left back onto Mass Ave a block before the destination. We could have just taken one turn from my apartment onto Mass Ave and made the full trip in two turns.