This is a major highway split, with many lanes going left for the Upper Roadway, and many lanes going right for the Lower roadway. Sometimes I’m on autopilot in the left lane, and Waze wants me to take the lower roadway (which it almost always should… upper sucks!)… and I forget to get over. Would be very helpful to have an audible cue “stay right for lower roadway” etc.
I don’t think the permalink is working right so here’s a screen grab:
EDIT: OK – I just looked at your link again, and yes — that’s the segment, but maybe my screen size is different. it looked like you centered on Exit 72, when it’s the north side of the highlighted segment is what i’m talking about:
no that’s Exit 72 for US-9w. go about 100 yards back (north) and you’ll see that 3 lanes separate and form 4 lanes (2 go left, 2 go right), with the middle lane splitting L/R. The split comes immediately after a hard right curve (it’s a hard curve at highway speeds) and if you’re not expecting to have to stay right, it’s very easy to default left onto the upper roadway, which can add an hour to your drive at the wrong time of day.
I would think adding a small ramp segment would force a verbal cue to “keep right” for lower roadway, and “keep left” for upper roadway. right now the engine assumes that you are “continuing” onto the lower roadway, or “keep left” onto the upper roadway, when in fact the highway divides exactly down the middle
I’m still not sure the current configuration is correct. The sign for the left fork contains I-95, G W Bridge, and Upper Level. The sign for the right fork contains I-95, G W Bridge, and Lower Level. Nowhere does any sign say anything about anything Local, which is what the right fork is currently configured to read.
Instead, shouldn’t the way-finder ramp be at the right fork, saying something like “to I-95 / GW Brg Lower Level”, instead of at the approach to this junction? This way, both forks have names different from the approaching segment (I-95 N, Local), and as long as the deflection angle is more than 20 degrees, both paths should be read out with their corresponding “Keep Left” or “Keep Right”.
I was going to test and see if the current solution worked out. if it does, great! If not, I was going to suggest something more like this using, as you suggested, the sign verbage:
I’m good with either solution as long as the driver gets a “keep right” prompt.