Boston traffic can be really challenging, especially during rush hours or when there’s construction. A few days ago, I got stuck on I-93, which was extremely congested, and it took much longer than expected to get through. Because of that, I couldn’t reach the workshop on time. Any Further suggestions!?
Have you tried the Waze app?
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I’m familiar with the app, though I haven’t used it myself yet. Several of my friends use it on their iPhones.
Been-there-done-that. I-93 during rush-hour is a nightmare most of the time. I’ve had commutes traveling just 20 miles down 93 into Boston that took over 2 hours. And one thing I don’t understand with the Big-Dig project - the closer you get to Boston the fewer lanes there are. There are 4 lanes up by Rt 16, but by the time you get to Storrow drive, I-93 is down to 2 lanes plus a commuter lane. I’ve tried alternate routes, but if I-93 is crowded then all the side roads are crowded as well and it’s not worth getting off. Whenever I go into Boston now, I take either the commuter rail out of Methuen or drive to Wellington and take the Orange-line.
Sorry about you frustration. On the interstate in Los Angeles you can walk faster than the cars are moving
I can’t help either. Our sheriff decided to engage in overzealous traffic stops on I-95 in Florida, caused miles of traffic backups. Oddly, four tickets were issued to left lane campers. Left lane campers are common in my county, usually LEOs just pass on the right.
That’s not a unique situation, it’s a daily occurrence. All of the expressways, toll roads and other highways are super congested during normal travel times. Then there is the disruption to the normal traffic jam; an accident, breakdown, shiny object, you name it. I’ve thought I was clever before, trying alternate routes only to find the “secret” was already out long ago- just as jammed as the main routes. The only solution I have found is; leave earlier and plan for delays. Good luck in your endeavor. BTW, if you discover a hidden solution, please share it! 
For Sure, I will share whatever I found the best solution.
The advantage of Waze is that it finds the ‘best’ route each time you check, which can change each day.
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+1
Additionally, the SatNav system in many newer cars is a “real time” system which takes road closures and accidents into consideration when it gives you a route.
My Android phone with Google Maps has never failed me yet, I have often had it reroute me on the way into/out of Nashville as wrecks happened a head of me…
Oh, and I have the answer about the traffic, move to a much less densely populated area… 
Maybe it’s better now, but when I first tried it, instead of the park that I wanted to visit, it sent me to a cemetery–in a different town. The second time that I tried it, I was directed to cross some RR tracks in an area where there was no RR crossing. After those screw-ups, I relied on my car’s SatNav system.
What irks me is there is no button to push to indicate- I can’t go that way, find another route". It keeps trying to get me back on the original route as quickly as possible. Sometimes wanting me to do a u turn and get back on the original route.
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I use Google Maps, but if I was facing a horrible daily commute I’d give Waze a try, just to see if it was any better.
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Could also possibly be the location, meaning I am in a much less densely populated area, so maybe it gets the computer version of being overwhelmed (if that is even a real thing) with the more dense areas…
I do know that the one time it did get me lost was when I figured out that I had turned off my location thingy, once I turned it back on, it took me straight to were I needed to go… Who wooda thunkit…
Normally mine will offer multiple routes and I just go with the one they picked or tap on a different one… If something happens and I have to change routes, worst case I just exit out and restart it… But as you said, it would be nice to have a button for it…
I think I tried it once because (IIRC) it shows speed traps and stuff, but I guess I may have set it up wrong or something, because it showed me to much info and overloaded my simple brain… I have a hard time comprehending what I read… I am a hands on person… lol
I get all confused pairing a phone to my truck, most people with the same set up say it is very easy… 
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I’ve used Google maps for uears and it works very well for navigation either on foot or by car. Looking g up the adtesss of a store in the city I wad visiting and the map showed exactly how to get there from my locationt. We used it on Dublin when the paper map we had didn’t show the street of our hotel. We were on the other side of a church from the hotel.
Dad’s 19 crv touring gives real time traffic but we’ve found going back from Newberg Oregon that there was no quick route around Portland at evening rush-hour. Seattle can be no better, one morning years ago the traffic reporters joked you could try going to pt defiance ferry dock, go toVashon, drive to the other end of the island and take a ferryto Seattle. Enough wrecks in the wrong places can bring I-5 to a halt. ,
Leave your starting point 15-30 minutes earlier, and go just a little slower.
What if you don’t have to be at work until 9am and live 20 miles away, with no traffic you can make it in 22-25 minutes (my best was 16-17), but in traffic the same drive can take up to and over an hour, now say that traffic is normally heavy from 6am until about 9:30am, wrecks are common but differ in the amount of traffic jams they cause, not to mention the normal traffic jams with no wrecks, so if you normally leave about 8:30am you can normally make it about 9am ish, if you hit extra traffic you are late, if you leave even earlier you might get to work 30 minutes early, but sometimes you can even be late then, so even leaving at 8am, you might get there by 8:30am and have to sit and wait in the car, or go on in and start early and work a 10.5 hour day or 11.5 or even 12.5 hour day instead of the 10, or 11, or 12 normal hour day, you are already working long hours and really don’t want the extra time, plus now that is 30 minutes a day you have lost with your family, when you already work long hours, now if you have to be in by 7am, leaving at 6am you might get their by 6:22am and just start getting ready to open early, but if you leave at 6:10am you might slide into work at 7am or even 7:15am and be late to open up the shop, having to be there at 8am is the hardest, you either have to leave by 6:30 and get there between 7am and 8am depending on if and how many wrecks have happened and how it affected the flow of traffic…
Now when you already work about 42% or more hours than the national average of the hourly work force, you tend to try to hopefully time it to where you get to work no more then 15 minutes early… And when a couple of years of your overtime pay was 60% more than what it is over the normal overtime pay at 42% more hours than the average hourly employee, plus the drive time to/from work, you are away from home about double the time of the average hourly worker, the last thing on your mind is driving below the speed limit and or the prevailing speed… When we 1st moved into our other house, all the neighbors thought my wife was a widow for the 1st 6 months… lol
Now, being that we were open 7 days a week, and I worked Every Saturday and 90% of the Sundays, the time frame had to be adjusted on weekends (2 days off in a row was a almost unheard off)…
So if you live in the area where I lived and had an appt in Nashville at 8am and wasn’t familiar with the traffic you could miss your appt by up to 30-45 minutes if you left 15 minutes early…
It might work out well for you in your neck of the woods, not so much in mine… I can only imagine how much worse it is in the bigger more densely populated areas…
Not picking on you Chris or anything like that, just painting a picture that life and driving is not always as black and white as some may think it is…
That’s what I do, just zen to the music or whatever. Not trying to put in extra time or impress anyone.