Reversible Express Lanes
Mon, 10/22/2012 - 8:47am
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Does the 765T or other Garmin devices know which direction an express lane is running at any particular time?
Saturday it told me to take express lanes and I wondered if it knew they were open in my direction or if it just knew they were the best route.
Interesting question
Interesting question. The older pre-traffic Garmins were not programmed to know whether reversible express lanes were open and handled this by directing the driver *away* from them at all times.
It would have to be tied into traffic information to work, because the schedule changes for them in Chicago depending on the day of the week and what's going on. Chicago knows the day-of what it's going to do--it's not a spur-of-the-moment thing, but the schedule cannot be programmed into the device and still be accurate years later.
I don't have a 765T so I can't answer the question. But it is an interesting one.
JMoo On
i know that
I know that NavTeq does code that information in their map data but what Garmin retains I don't know. There was an issue a few years ago regarding I-66 inside the I-495 Beltway around Washington. The road is HOV-3 during specific hours and Garmin didn't route over it at any time. I don't travel that way so i don't know if it was changed, but if I remember the threads right, it was back in 2010.
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If I didn't hate going into
If I didn't hate going into Chicago so much I would give the same address a try in the afternoon when the lanes are going the opposite direction.
John B - Garmin 765T