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New London Frontage Roads

Post by M4nal
When travelling SB on I-95 to any of the businesses in the New London Mall (Marshall's, Shop Rite, Chili's, etc.), Waze has you take N Frontage Road. This is good.

But where N Frontage Road changes from Major Highway to Primary Street, Waze directs the user to "Turn left onto N Frontage Road". The correct direction would be silence.

I suggest the remainder of N Frontage Road be upgraded to Major Highway to prevent this mis-direction.

There would be no detriment to routing as this would not change the ranking of roadway priorities in the immediate area.

https://www.waze.com/editor/?env=usa&lo ... 97,8956241

Though I drive this route daily, Waze always thinks I jumped onto I-95 and am taking the off-ramp that runs parallel to this segment. In the off-chance that someone is in the shopping plaza parking lot and enters S Frontage Road after it's on-ramp to I-95 N, Waze would direct the driver to turn left where the road is down-graded as US 1 exits.

https://www.waze.com/editor/?env=usa&lo ... s=84421829
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Re: New London Frontage Roads

Post by AndyPoms
M4nal wrote:But where N Frontage Road changes from Major Highway to Primary Street, Waze directs the user to "Turn left onto N Frontage Road". The correct direction would be silence.

I suggest the remainder of N Frontage Road be upgraded to Major Highway to prevent this mis-direction.

There would be no detriment to routing as this would not change the ranking of roadway priorities in the immediate area.
Solved this by removing the Alt-Name from the Ramp. Waze should no longer generate the "Keep Left" prompt.
M4nal wrote:Though I drive this route daily, Waze always thinks I jumped onto I-95 and am taking the off-ramp that runs parallel to this segment. In the off-chance that someone is in the shopping plaza parking lot and enters S Frontage Road after it's on-ramp to I-95 N, Waze would direct the driver to turn left where the road is down-graded as US 1 exits.
There is an editing feature there that will force a "Keep Right" & a "Keep Left" there that will match the BGS (Big Green Sign).
M4nal wrote:Hold on, I just noticed on the S Frontage Road, where this transition happens, there are three nodes...unfortunately IE won't let me zoom in closer to see exactly what's going on here.

It looks like the three-node cluster would allow Waze to give proper directions between continuing straight (silence) and keeping right (exit). Waze would also remain silent during the road down-grade as there are no alternatives.

Perhaps duplicating this on the N Frontage Road would be the better solution.
As explained above, the "three node structure" is there to force prompts to match the BGS. There is no BGS on N Frontage.
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Re: New London Frontage Roads

Post by frankhewes
isn't this similar to where CT-15 transitions to divided highway in Newington, or I-84 division in Hartford, where staying left is the understood straight?
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Re: New London Frontage Roads

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AndyPoms is familiar with both of those and he's also the one that informed me of the "left is straight" rule for segments like this.
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Re: New London Frontage Roads

Post by M4nal
Hold on, I just noticed on the S Frontage Road, where this transition happens, there are three nodes...unfortunately IE won't let me zoom in closer to see exactly what's going on here.

It looks like the three-node cluster would allow Waze to give proper directions between continuing straight (silence) and keeping right (exit). Waze would also remain silent during the road down-grade as there are no alternatives.

Perhaps duplicating this on the N Frontage Road would be the better solution.

https://www.waze.com/editor/?env=usa&lo ... s=63095992
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Re: New London Frontage Roads

Post by M4nal
I made a quick detour this morning by going thru the parking lot before hitting S Frontage Rd.

I thought the direction was "Exit left to...", but reading this now I'm not sure if it said exit or keep...either way, it works. <Edit - it says "keep left to">

I'll confirm N Frontage next time I'm coming home from Groton (may be a while).
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Re: New London Frontage Roads  Topic is solved

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Confirmed.
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Re: New London Frontage Roads

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I'm not familiar with those intersections, so I can't say.
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