N80
Super Member
My cabin is on a small country road. It is about 5 miles from an interstate. The road is about 6 miles long and connects two state highways. However, there is another state highway that parallels our road and is a shorter route to both of those state highways. Our road is also in horrible condition. It is narrow, tons of pot holes and bumps. Shoulders are crumbling and when the county, in its infinite wisdom, painted lines on the road it was so narrow that in many places the white lines on the edges of the road were painted in the grass. There are only 4 homes on the whole six miles before it comes to a small town (7 homes and a church).
The road is marked as "No Through Trucks" because of its condition and the fact that it is not the fastest way to get anywhere.
Since this road is only useful to the people who live on it and to the people in the little town, traffic is usually non existent and you usually know the people you do see driving by.
Lately traffic has increased dramatically. We walked about a mile this (Sunday) morning before 8 a.m. and were passed by 8 cars; most of them out of state. A few weeks ago, early in the morning, a pickup saw us walking and stopped and said his GPS had sent him this way to get to a town almost an hour away and he didn't feel like he was going the right way. He wasn't. There are almost no circumstances in which our road should have even been an option. Not even a wreck on the interstate or on the parellel highway or both should have generated this route. We have watched people stop and do a 16 point turn and go back the other direction.
So our assumption is that GPS systems are sending people down our road. Not only do we not like the traffic but there is no benefit to anyone to be sent down this road.
Anyone have this happen before? If so, is there a remedy?
The road is marked as "No Through Trucks" because of its condition and the fact that it is not the fastest way to get anywhere.
Since this road is only useful to the people who live on it and to the people in the little town, traffic is usually non existent and you usually know the people you do see driving by.
Lately traffic has increased dramatically. We walked about a mile this (Sunday) morning before 8 a.m. and were passed by 8 cars; most of them out of state. A few weeks ago, early in the morning, a pickup saw us walking and stopped and said his GPS had sent him this way to get to a town almost an hour away and he didn't feel like he was going the right way. He wasn't. There are almost no circumstances in which our road should have even been an option. Not even a wreck on the interstate or on the parellel highway or both should have generated this route. We have watched people stop and do a 16 point turn and go back the other direction.
So our assumption is that GPS systems are sending people down our road. Not only do we not like the traffic but there is no benefit to anyone to be sent down this road.
Anyone have this happen before? If so, is there a remedy?