Originally Posted by
ilynne
I've noticed that Google maps bike directions does not know how to find the bike friendly routes. It always tries to route me over the Ballard bridge. Not riding that one again. The Fremont bridge is much friendlier and I don't care if it takes me out of my way. Google just does not grasp that the shortest route is not necessarily the most bike-friendly. I see bike lanes and paths marked, and Google Maps not routing me to them.
Have you sent your comments to the corrections site from Google's map routing page? I've found them to be pretty responsive to suggestions. Mine have mainly been about connectors to some of the MUPs in my area that were missing from their maps and some bike cut-throughs that were wrongly identified as not open to public travel. But I'd think their software could assign a relative penalty to the Ballard bridge vs. the Fremont so that routing would favor the latter if the distances are not too different.