Originally Posted by
kevin999
But the WAZE apps are re-routing freeway traffic onto our country roads. So we have to change our route.
A couple of decades ago, I lived in the St. Louis area. Traffic was mostly on the interstates, and could be fairly miserable if you were going in the wrong direction at the wrong time of day.
I was down there recently and went for a ride on my old favorite roads in the afternoon... and it was a mess! Traffic had migrated onto these formerly pleasant roads and turned them into slow moving parking lots. Another reason that I'm glad that I left there. (but there is still some fine bike riding in the outer St. Louis areas, especially out west)
Steve in Peoria
(very much enjoying riding in the low traffic in Peoria as well as the vast expanses of rural areas surrounding it)