@markstos @pleaseclap @bloomington_in without knowing the local area, I was thinking not that there might be basically parallel routes with different speed limits, and car routing would choose the higher limit option, while bike routing chooses the lower limit option. But with the assumption that the limits reflect something else about the road condition and how comfortable biking is, the routing algorithm now has a better signal to choose the better route

@markstos @DemonHusky @bloomington_in

What DemonHusky said:

A map app suggesting a route for a bike will try to minimize time via the slowest streets. For a car, it will try to minimize time via the fastest streets (which are usually more direct in terms of distance)

So if the algorithm suggesting a route thinks all streets are the same speed, bikes and cars will be suggested the same low-distance routes, which will usually be routes featuring excessive speeding by drivers