Ember transitionTo removed but still firing - ember.js

Question

This one has me baffled. I am still new to ember but I had some nested routes where I was calling transitionTo with the redirect hook on the parent route to pull in a nested child route.
App.CategoryRoute = Ember.Route.extend({
redirect: { transitionTo('subcategories'); }
});
I since removed the redirect hook and the transitionTo however the transition is still occurring. I even have closed my project and reopened, cleared the cache on all browsers but it still is holding onto the transition. I have also tried calling a bogus route under the redirect and it errors out. As soon as I remove, it goes back to this behavior and transitions into the child route. Has anyone ever had this happen? What am I doing wrong? Please let me know if you need more code.
Here is the rest of the code. in my troubleshooting i have removed and added so much stuff I will try to get it back to what it was when it started happening. I also removed as much 'fluff' as I could from the handlbars code sections to make it clearer.
App = Ember.Application.create({
rootElement: "#app",
LOG_TRANSITIONS: true
});
App.Router.map(function () {
this.resource("category", function () {
this.resource('subcategories', { path: "/" }, function () {
//subcategory route show list of items in that subcategory
this.resource('subcategory', { path: "/:subcategoryslug" }, function () {
//this is individual item
this.route("item", { path: "/:itemid" });
});
});
});
});
App.CategoryRoute = Ember.Route.extend({
redirect: { transitionTo('subcategories'); }
});
App.CategorySubcategoriesRoute = Ember.Route.extend({
model: function (params) {
Ember.Logger.warn("Inside category route");
categoryid = 47
//this calls extended object for json data
//works just fine when routes are rendered.
return App.Subcategory.findAll(categoryid);
}
});
Here is the handlebars blocks:
<script type="text/x-handlebars" data-template-name="index">
<h2>APPLICATION TITLE</h2>
<div>
<strong>{{#link-to 'category'}}CategoryName{{/link-to}}</strong>
</div>
</script>
<script type="text/x-handlebars" data-template-name="category/index">
<h2>Category Name</h2>
<div>
{{outlet "subcategories"}}
</div>
</script>
<script type="text/x-handlebars" data-template-name="category/subcategories">
{{#each subcategory in model}}
<div>
<strong>{{#link-to 'category.subcategory.index' subcategory}}{{subcategory.subcategoryname}}{{/link-to}}</strong><br>
{{subcategory.description}}
</div>
{{/each}}
</script>