About a month ago, we were driving from Boston to Morristown (north-central Jersey), just entering the Merritt/Cross parkways, when our Garmin GPS suddenly rerouted us drastically, to get back on to I-84 west. I then looked at Waze and saw why-- there was an accident backing up traffic. The GPS continued to reroute us further and further west due to additional accidents and traffic to our south (e.g. on the Taconic). Eventually we drove maybe 40 extra miles, all the way to the I-84/I-87 interchange near Newburgh before cutting south, but we ran into no traffic the entire way, so it did indeed save us time compared to any route that would've taken us near NYC.
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Date: 2014-07-23 01:31 pm (UTC)About a month ago, we were driving from Boston to Morristown (north-central Jersey), just entering the Merritt/Cross parkways, when our Garmin GPS suddenly rerouted us drastically, to get back on to I-84 west. I then looked at Waze and saw why-- there was an accident backing up traffic. The GPS continued to reroute us further and further west due to additional accidents and traffic to our south (e.g. on the Taconic). Eventually we drove maybe 40 extra miles, all the way to the I-84/I-87 interchange near Newburgh before cutting south, but we ran into no traffic the entire way, so it did indeed save us time compared to any route that would've taken us near NYC.