diff --git a/Web/Routes/RouteT.hs b/Web/Routes/RouteT.hs
--- a/Web/Routes/RouteT.hs
+++ b/Web/Routes/RouteT.hs
@@ -31,10 +31,13 @@
 
 -- |monad transformer for generating URLs
 newtype RouteT url m a = RouteT { unRouteT :: (url -> [(String, String)] -> Link) -> m a }
---     deriving (Functor, Monad, MonadFix, MonadPlus) -- , MonadIO, MonadTrans, MonadReader (url -> Link))
 
-runRouteT :: RouteT url m a -> (url -> [(String, String)] -> Link) -> m a
-runRouteT = unRouteT
+-- | convert a 'RouteT' based route handler to a handler that can be used with the 'Site' type
+--
+-- NOTE: this function used to be the same as 'unRouteT'. If you want the old behavior, just call 'unRouteT'.
+runRouteT :: (url -> RouteT url m a) 
+          -> ((url -> [(String, String)] -> String) -> url -> m a)
+runRouteT r = \f u -> (unRouteT (r u)) f
 
 -- | Transform the computation inside a @RouteT@.
 mapRouteT :: (m a -> n b) -> RouteT url m a -> RouteT url n b
diff --git a/web-routes.cabal b/web-routes.cabal
--- a/web-routes.cabal
+++ b/web-routes.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Name:             web-routes
-Version:          0.24.1
+Version:          0.25.1
 License:          BSD3
 License-File:     LICENSE
 Author:           jeremy@seereason.com