How to avoid stationary traffic on Motorway?

[nigelp]

Hi,

Was driving from London to Yorkshire this weekend, just coming to Ease Midlands airport and the traffic after the junction 24 was stationary., signs had been warning it was for miles.

Pressed FIND ALTERNATIVE, Avoid Roadblock 3 MILES. It still sent me up the M1 !!

So I took matters into my own hands and came off the motorway, could only head towards Nottingham, otherway was Airport.

What I wanted to do was tell TomTom to ignore a couple of junctions on the Motorway, then take me back on at say junction 26.

I tried adding a VIA to junction 26, but it sent me up the motorway, I couldnt avoid the whole M1 as it would calculate a route and not take me back to the motorway, so I ended up driving towards Nottingham, with TomTom telling to turn around when possible, finally, after many miles, it recalculated and took me on at Junction 26.

I thought the while point of the Avoid Roadblock was to force it to pick another road?????

Can anyone suggest a way I could do this easier in future?

I suppose I could have browsed the map and added a VIA somewhere towards Nottingham,but that seems to miss the point really. I want TomTom to do it for me !

Nige.

[nigelp]

whoops double post.

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