diff --git a/cake/libs/route/redirect_route.php b/cake/libs/route/redirect_route.php
index 148ce358f..e385dec0d 100644
--- a/cake/libs/route/redirect_route.php
+++ b/cake/libs/route/redirect_route.php
@@ -2,7 +2,9 @@
 App::import('Core', 'CakeResponse');
 App::import('Core', 'route/CakeRoute');
 /**
- * Redirect route will perform an immediate redirect
+ * Redirect route will perform an immediate redirect.  Redirect routes
+ * are useful when you want to have Routing layer redirects occur in your 
+ * application, for when URLs move.
  *
  * PHP5
  *
@@ -28,6 +30,25 @@ class RedirectRoute extends CakeRoute {
  */
 	public $response = null;
 
+/**
+ * The location to redirect to.  Either a string or a cake array url.
+ *
+ * @var mixed
+ */
+	public $redirect;
+
+/**
+ * Constructor
+ *
+ * @param string $template Template string with parameter placeholders
+ * @param array $defaults Array of defaults for the route.
+ * @param string $params Array of parameters and additional options for the Route
+ */
+	public function __construct($template, $defaults = array(), $options = array()) {
+		parent::__construct($template, $defaults, $options);
+		$this->redirect = (array)$defaults;
+	}
+
 /**
  * Parses a string url into an array. Parsed urls will result in an automatic
  * redirection
@@ -43,16 +64,16 @@ class RedirectRoute extends CakeRoute {
 		if (!$this->response) {
 			$this->response = new CakeResponse();
 		}
-		$redirect = $this->defaults;
-		if (count($this->defaults) == 1 && !isset($this->defaults['controller'])) {
-			$redirect = $this->defaults[0];
+		$redirect = $this->redirect;
+		if (count($this->redirect) == 1 && !isset($this->redirect['controller'])) {
+			$redirect = $this->redirect[0];
 		}
 		if (isset($this->options['persist']) && is_array($redirect)) {
 			$argOptions['context'] = array('action' => $redirect['action'], 'controller' => $redirect['controller']);
 			$args = Router::getArgs($params['_args_'], $argOptions);
 			$redirect += $args['pass'];
 			$redirect += $args['named'];
-		}		
+		}
 		$status = 301;
 		if (isset($this->options['status']) && ($this->options['status'] >= 300 && $this->options['status'] < 400)) {
 			$status = $this->options['status'];
diff --git a/cake/libs/router.php b/cake/libs/router.php
index 43c9590bf..506bdb2b0 100644
--- a/cake/libs/router.php
+++ b/cake/libs/router.php
@@ -269,15 +269,18 @@ class Router {
  *
  * `Router::redirect('/home/*', array('controller' => 'posts', 'action' => 'view', array('persist' => true));`
  *
- * Redirects /home/* to /posts/view and passes the parameters to /posts/view
+ * Redirects /home/* to /posts/view and passes the parameters to /posts/view.  Using an array as the 
+ * redirect destination allows you to use other routes to define where a url string should be redirected ot.
  *
  * `Router::redirect('/posts/*', 'http://google.com', array('status' => 302));`
  *
  * Redirects /posts/* to http://google.com with a HTTP status of 302
  *
  * ### Options:
+ *
  * - `status` Sets the HTTP status (default 301)
- * - `persist` Passes the params to the redirected route, if it can
+ * - `persist` Passes the params to the redirected route, if it can.  This is useful with greedy routes,
+ *   routes that end in `*` are greedy.  As you can remap urls and not loose any passed/named args.
  *
  * @param string $route A string describing the template of the route
  * @param array $url A url to redirect to. Can be a string or a Cake array-based url