#Racr route planner update

Then same journey again with Morvern, Ardgour and Nether Lochaber - sometimes you're lucky and Corran pops up, otherwise they take you the long hike round Loch Eil via Fort William! Sometimes you can get Lochaline up, mostly you can't.

Now play about with the same journey calling at Morvern (by which the RAC planner seems to mean Lochaline). Will have a look at Autoroute, Rolebama it is has the flexibility to do 'via' properly it could be Â£20 well invested.

#Racr route planner update

I was going to update to 2007 version, but at Â£85, I went for a SatNav. Fishnish is not shown, but the A884 leads direct to the Ferry route (labelled as Fishnish/Lockaline).ĭue to the way you can manipulate routes, it may be worth your getting hold of a copy (Â£20 from Amazon). If I change to Fishnish/Lockaline ferry, it adds time and mileage to journey. Both the shortest and quickest route indicate using the Craignure to Oban ferry. Quick look at map and that was it - wasn't so much m-way then, either!!įicklejade, I have put the journey Tobermory, Lochearnhead, Stirling, Edinburgh, Bellingham into Autoroute 2005. Remember many moons ago, before all the technology, getting phoned up at 11.30pm almost as far east in England as you can get and told by hubby to be at a certain hotel in Aberystwyth (sorry about spelling?) at 2.00pm next day. I'm very much like you Selbit - tend to use online planners for guide to journey times and distances as a rough guide. Sure, SatNav may be useful for getting to precise city streets, but if you're traversing the country getting from one general location to another location with which you are fairly familiar, all you need is a check with the route planner (if necessary) a fundamental geographical knowledge and to follow the signs to the relevant places. Get to M6, follow signs to 'The North-West, Scotland'.

Occasionally a couple of post-it notes attached to the car radio area if it's an area I'm completely unfamiliar with nothing more needed I find.Įxample: if I want to get from Devon to Glasgow, I get to the M5, follow signs for 'Birmingham'. I use the online route planners before doing a journey, to get the general route, but then I just use the roadmap and read the signs on the road. This confusion is why I have absolutely no interest in this route-planning technology and all I ever use is the good old roadmap and reading the roadsigns. I am NOT impressed! Perhaps, by raising it here, someone on the inside can get the powers that be to pull their fingers out (sorry to be rude) and get it sorted! Having pointed out these issues over two years ago and since as well, nothing has been done. It ruined my family's planned evening as well. If I'm angry right now, it cost me over an hour's extra work (unpaid) to find just such a family (who had relied on a reputable organisation's supposedly good route planning system) accommodation. Try dealing with folks with toddlers and babies who have been faced with over a hundred extra miles to get to their destinations because they have relied on such systems and then lose out on their accommodation because they've not met their deadline and their normal mobile phone doesn't work so they can't phone, and let's face it, mobile phone signals don't cover much of the route. Having said that, the AA route planner is only slightly better.Īt the end of the day, it is locals who bear the brunt of the complaints those who probably have never ventured to such areas but have such faith in their computerised system never have to. (c) if you know to type in Morvern and then Ardgour, where the Corran ferry crosses to Nether Lochaber, you can be directed the long way round via Locheil to Fort William - no mention of the 5 minute Corran ferry. (b) if you type in Morvern, it directs you to take the ferry over to Lochaline and then return to Fishnish on Mull to get the Craignure to Oban ferry (a) recognising that one can travel on a ferry between Fishnish on Mull and Lochaline (that place doesn't exist - it's called Morvern which is an area name and not one generally recognised unless one's local) and onto to Ardgour where you can cross on Corran Ferry to join the A82 southbound) The RAC route planner seems to be incapable of I want to travel via Lochearnhead, Stirling to Edinburgh and points south, say Bellingham. Having tried and failed for over two years to sort a situation that is a big problem for visitors to Mull (and for residents faced with an unfamiliar journey or trying to work out logistical journey times), when is the RAC going to get to grips with the fantasy land of their journey planner?