ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
A Roads?!?!?!
- Thread starter lillyhobo
- Start date
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Richard Fairhurst
Guru
- Location
- Charlbury, the Cotswolds
Glad you're finding cycle.travel useful (it's my site!).
One thing that might be particularly relevant - it uses the DfT traffic counts (mentioned upthread) as part of the route choices. So it'll be happy with an A road with 1,000 cars a day, but not 20,000 a day.
One thing that might be particularly relevant - it uses the DfT traffic counts (mentioned upthread) as part of the route choices. So it'll be happy with an A road with 1,000 cars a day, but not 20,000 a day.
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lillyhobo
Member
Hi @Richard Fairhurst
Thats an amazing feature! Great work with the site. I'm borrowing a friends Garmin 1000 Edge for the ride. I'm guessing I'll be able to upload my intended route on to it via your site no worries?
Forgive my ignorance however I've never used a route planner or device for a self supported journey this big before. I've only ever rode as part of groups where the route is all organised.
Any info would be great, cheers Richard.
Best, Al
Richard Fairhurst
Guru
- Location
- Charlbury, the Cotswolds
Yep, that’ll be fine. Just click the GPS button and that gives you a TCX or GPX file you can copy across to the Garmin.
Soltydog
Legendary Member
- Location
- near Hornsea
I used to work on the theory that if it was an A road with a higher number it was generally quieter. The system worked quite well for me till last year when I plotted a route from Oxford back home, 1st day saw me cycling on the A421 near Milton Keynes & it was a touch busier than I would have liked 
So that system is now scrapped. I'll take a look at using http://cycle.travel/map next time I'm plotting a route in unknown areas, cheers guys 
So that system is now scrapped. I'll take a look at using http://cycle.travel/map next time I'm plotting a route in unknown areas, cheers guys 
