Google Maps you are bloody useless, I hate the M25 and the fucking roadworks and I wish I owned a cone factory.

[IHateGoogleandTheM25]

For the love of all that is holy, Google sort your bloody maps out.

I'm normally a planner but had an unexpected trip across country and thought I could rely on technology - but it is fucking useless.

It has just sent me down the M11 to a closed junction, then re routed me to end up on the other side where the same junction is closed.

How difficult is it for Google Maps to do what it bloody well should.

So now I've been on the North circular - I did question where the fuck I was, there are better road surfaces in war zones- and who the fuck is driving at 2am, the roads were busier than school traffic where I live.

And cones, how much does it cost to buy the bastard things, or are they rented? I just know I should buy shares in the cone making factory.

Three miles of cones, no roadworks, no people . And this is repeated constantly. I could scream.

Feel a bit better now I've moaned. Having a service station coffee before I start travelling on the much more civilised M3

Try the Waze app. It is brilliant.

sorry you have had such a crap journey so far

I got Roast Chicken and Thyme Sensations instead of Thai Sweet Chilli.

You think you've got it tough.

Waze, every single time.

Sounds like a nightmare but another vote for Waze. Waze uses information fed to the app by other drivers so is up to date.
Make sure your settings are as you want - it’s taken me through backroads which are little more than tracks between fields.

Don’t think you know better, like I did- I tried to override the way it was redirecting me for a more familiar route and ended up on a countryside diversion to get round closed motorway junctions!

Tbh I've had problems with Waze when we had a rural road closure for 10 weeks near us. The road closure was moved along as water mains were being replaced and the location meant the route to my mum changed and there was a 3/4 mile diversion if I got it wrong. I ended up posting on Facebook each week to check after Waze got it wrong the first 2 weeks. And going to the airport it always tries to take me up a single track road with a hideous right turn onto a very busy dual carriageway. I know both the routes and only have it on in case of road closures/accidents.

Thank you. I felt better to have moaned about it, and for you taking the time to reply- there was no one else awake for me to speak to.

Waze is owned by bloody Google Maps and I've been a bit wary as it likes to send you down side streets etc to shave time off the journey but I'm going to give it a go on the way back- might load both up.

Added an hour to my journey, probably have to pay the Ulez (which is unfair as I didn't want to be on that bloody route- I'm sure I'm going to need a full set of tyres, how can a road in our Capital be so bad?)

i was a waze fan until it directed me onto a closed m25 … I gave the benefit of the doubt, thinking the accident could have just happened … googled it later and it had happened about an hour before!

Another vote for waze. I was reluctant after years of my 25 yr old dd telling me how great it is, but once i was a passenger with her avoiding lots of traffic on a beach trip I was converted. Now I dont know how I managed without it.

The issue with Waze is that you can only report issues on a road you are on. If a road is closed you can’t accurately report it.

Unless other drivers report it, it doesn’t know.

I'm pretty sure Waze is updated with planned closures and the 2 months of closures that caused me problems were definitely planned. I know loads of people it caused problems for including lorries ending up having to turn in field entrances/go on unsuitable roads. I have a couple of routes I di regularly where Waze tries to send me a crazy route so I ignore it.