Quick Route Question - it doesn't work!

[eluser]timattz[/eluser]
The docs clearly show that the route file does redirects:

Code:

$route['journals'] = "blogs";

A URL containing the word "journals" in the first segment will be remapped to the "blogs" class.

So the user types in "journals" and is redirected to "blogs" instead. I'm not sure how this is any different form what I am doing.