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Suggested Route is over 100km longer and no alternatives presented, forcing the issue results in a failed route

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Planning a trip from Hornsby NSW to Mudgee, ABRP offers only a single option via Cessnock which is 380km with a 28 minute charging stop, total trip duration of 4h 50m. A more direct route via Lithgow is 280km and 3h 30m so with a similar charging stop duration is an hour faster and 100km shorter. ABRP will not suggest this as an option.

Worse, adding Lithgow in as an option results in a “no valid plan found” and attempts to route via Goulburn instead - a trip that while possible is now 540km and 6h 30m!

For some reason ABRP seems to think that two highways through the blue mountains do not exist. I suspect that the fact that one of those is partially closed is affecting the other, and therefore avoiding driving through the mountains at all.

Where does this happen?
ABRP version number (found at bottom of settings menu)
Posted by ABRP User #698500 ·
Status: Completed2 comments

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  • Mahde - ABRP changed status to Completed
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    Sep 1

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    Hello @ABRP User #698500,

    Other users have reported this issue for us and we have found the issues at hand.

    Firstly, the road passing Mt Victoria close to Katoomba is closed off currently by our data provider and therefore is not available now.

    The second road to Lithgow was noted to have been broken due to having an unclassified road near Bell that has a road leading to Lithgow. We have fixed this but it will only be visible next week in ABRP.

    We do not see any reports for the northern road to Lithgow but please check news to see if there are any blockages there. Otherwise you should be able to pass through but ABRP will not create routes through the mountains as shown.

    • ABRP User #698500

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      Sep 2

      Thanks Mahde, the second route to Lithgow is actually the faster option for anyone in Sydney’s north and I’ll be taking it tomorrow. I appreciate you getting onto this quickly and hope that my report also helped some others. FWIW I recommend ABRP to every and all EV drivers.. Have a good one.