A friend called us, lost and running late for an appointment, asking where "Bypass Road" is in Concord. He was following Google Maps' directions here and was having a terrible time finding his turnoff onto "Bypass Road." No one seemed to be able to help him find it either, ask as he might.We were stumped about this one, too. But we made a wild guess and found we were right on the money: "Bypass Road" is the part of Route 2A that was rerouted some 20 or so years ago. 2A used to go all the way down Lexington Road to Main Street, then Main to Elm to the Route 2/2A/119 Rotary.
Now 2A bypasses (ah! there's that word!) the above entire area by joining up with Route 2 just over the border from Lincoln. Thus "Bypass Road"... which we never think of by that name. We just call it "Route 2A," specifically "Route 2A from the blinking yellow light where Lexington Road starts". You know that makes more sense, right? Well, go fight Google with something that makes sense!
Anyway, we wonder how many visitors have become lost trying to find "Bypass Road." And how many other Google Maps we all depend upon are flawed in ways we've yet to discover.
See a larger Google map of "Bypass Road." Or perhaps just "bypass" it all together...
