Increased traffic on country road.

[blee03]

Not my picture... but this happened around West Branch or St. Helen, MI
We snowmobile down this trail all the time in the winter, lol

 

[MossRoad]

Oh Geeze!

 

[Jstpssng]

You just keep going in hopes there's a place to turn around. Instead the road keeps getting narrower and narrower until you find a mud hole.

 

[dstig1]

Geez, I mean i could see a 16 yr old new driver not getting the hint that "this ain't a real road!!!" but anyone old enough to get a CDL (and yes I know the rep of Swift drivers...)?!?! No more than 100' in and if you haven't stopped and put it in reverse you deserve to be shot on principle. A little chlorine in the ol' gene pool...

 

[N80]

Interesting OP comment. I'm seeing fewer vehicles on the roads around here as fuel prices are directly impacting travel for non essential stuff. IOW a lot of people cannot afford the bust.

We have some of the highest growth in the nation here. Over the last 3-4 years traffic has gotten insane here. Can't tell any difference since gas prices went up. Maybe even worse. On the interstate, 40 miles between the two nearest cities, traffic comes to a stop frequently for no apparent reason. Just heavy traffic. Not even in "rush hour". The state highway that parallels the interstate, which we usually take because the interstate traffic is so bad, is now useless because they condemned a bridge. No plans to fix it even though it is on a state highway!!! Just pushed up big mounds of dirt to block it on both ends.

We are living in strange times folks. And I'm not optimistic.

 

[jigs_n_fixtures]

Found a route on Google a few years back that was a real doozy. I was helping my son set his phone up to navigate to his summer job at my sisters farm in Laconner. We found that the mapping app showed a road from the end of the road where she lives, (road ends at her drive way and a neighbor on the other side of the road) across the fields to another farm yard about a mile away. This route took you through the neighbors yard, then cross country to the other farmyard.
Maybe there were some tractor tire tracks across the fields that someone followed. I could not pick anything out on the imagery that I would of classified as a road or trail, and I spent 35 years as a professional photogrammetrist interpreting and mapping from aerial photography.

Is there an undeveloped right of way where they showed a road? Folks around here subdivide into 5-acre lots(minimum for the agg exemption and donate the right of ways to the county So they dont get taxed on it. And, continue farming it.

 

[5030]

Most of our local jaunts up town are by side by side UTV. Roads don't really count with that actually.

 

[SgtSluggo]

As for the change in traffic you are seeing - Google Maps (and thus Waze) have recently changed their default from "fastest" to "most efficient."

I am not quite sure how it calculates that, but it will send me on a 3-5min longer trip than the fastest sometimes. Often that means a backroad instead of out to the highway. It could be that your road does take a little longer but is "more efficient" from one place to another. I'd try playing around google maps to see what puts people down your road.

For all who have local roads with issues, go to your section of the world on google maps (web not app), right click and select "report a data problem." Then select "add or fix a road" This will give you many options to add, delete, report impassible or private the roads in your area.

 

[bigtiller]

For all who have local roads with issues, go to your section of the world on google maps (web not app), right click and select "report a data problem." Then select "add or fix a road" This will give you many options to add, delete, report impassible or private the roads in your area.

I was successful doing that several years ago. Google thought my "Y" shaped driveway was a county road and people were using it as a place to turn around to get back to the highway.

One guy stopped to ask me how I got the county to blacktop most of it.

It took about a month for the change to happen.

 

[Raul-02]

If so, is there a remedy?

sue the gps company.

we had problems with convoys of trucks using a back road we were on in Maine.
The state cops didn't care. Were hostile actually.
So we used gasoline and diesel pouring it across the road in several spots making redneck speed bumps. The convoys didn't approve.