Best route from Essex to Hampshire over Easter Weekend

[lordrobs]

Whatever way Google says is best when you leave.

As someone who travels the UK for work this is always my answer. Customers often ask me which route I'll be taking home and some seem quite surprised when I say wherever the satnav sends me!

 

[Trifid]

its not as bad as everyone is saying.

Lies. I did a 10 mile journey last week and it took over an hour.

 

[AndyCr15]

it is still an algorithm and will get things wrong all the time.

All the time?! Yes, occasionally an accident happens that it couldn't have predicted, but otherwise, I find it ridiculously accurate 95% of the time. Like, a 3-hour journey and it predicts my arrival time within a couple of minutes...

Id rather have 5 minutes extra journey time being predominately on motorways than chopping and changing between A and B roads which ends up with the same end time anyway due to traffic.

I guess you can use the 'alternate routes' button and have a look where else it suggests and how much longer it takes.

 

[Semple]

Google might tell you the quickest but not always the best. Id rather have 5 minutes extra journey time being predominately on motorways than chopping and changing between A and B roads which ends up with the same end time anyway due to traffic.

He said Essex so going M25 then M3 is literally two roads and the M3 takes you directly to Winchester pretty much.

I do wish Google maps would have an option to ignore re-routing unless it was saving you significant time (i.e. at least 15+ minutes).

Nothing worse than it telling you to get off at the next junction just to save 2 minutes when in reality it's probably actually slower.

 

[sidimmu]

Lies. I did a 10 mile journey last week and it took over an hour.

Thats average for M25 when road works are going on or commuting times.
As I said, its no worse than normal.