Having the option to enable an automatic prompt to re-adjust a route (if it is created during school zone hours and will involve traveling through sed areas) instead of manually finding additional routes &/or looking to see if schools on the route selected.

Avoiding school zones would be a great feature. Schools can be identified by address and times can be estimated or presumed. A smart approach may be to identify schools, measure slowdowns on roads adjacent to the schools, and solicit community feedback from wazers on those roads.

Plan routes to avoid school zones during school hours / school days

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How about an option to close certain roads near school from travel at the posted times? Lots of school areas have those.

Please can Waze make sure vehicles are not routed through school streets or past schools during the times for drop off and pick up. Extra cars mean extra danger for children, making their route to education less safe.

I love Waze but the other day I missed a turn and got re-routed through a school zone. This is an unnecessary delay but more importantly it is not safe for the schools. Please find a way to avoid school zones from 8-4 to help make communities safer and improve the Waze experience. Thanks for a great app.

Having drivers tag school zones is a bad idea. Instead, Waze could contact schools across the country and ask them to reply with the active hours and speed. Not only is this really effective advertising for Waze, it could provide some amazing PR.

In Australia we actually have time-of-day speed limit reductions around schools which I don't believe Waze currently implements.

This is still a problem. It is totally unsafe to direct traffic right next to a school in the morning or afternoon when school children are entering/ exiting campus. It is so unsafe!!!

Could be optional maybe?

Maybe needs o alert that this is why your being re routed? Otherwise you may think Waze is being stupid. Especially if don't or have never had kids!

School zones appear as speed traps here in Seattle area. School zones are safety zones for the protection of children, not intentional police screens for soeeders. For safety, they should be avoided when possible and noted properly when unavoidable.

People on waze have decided to go down our street phone and coffee in hand at the same time as the morning bus nearly hitting kids. Can we please adjust maps for school bus routes ?

Community Safety alert. Notice that many of the comments in this category are from the Silicon Valley region of CA. It is a real problem having serious safety consequences.

While it is a nice idea, it isn't really practical. Doing so in some locations would require rather substantial detours around the school. Remember that not everyone lives in a place where there is another road half a mile a way to detour on to.

If there have been a bunch of accidents/injuries/deaths in an near school zones, sounds like you need to get the attention of the local authorities and have them put the police out there instead of patrolling the local interstate.

Copy-Paste from https://www.waze.com/about - "Waze is all about contributing to the 'common good' out there on the road.". The 'common good' means good for everybody, considering all factors and conditions, not simply shaving minutes off your commute.

My town of Los Altos, CA does not have sidewalks on the vast majority of its neighborhood streets. So every child who walks or bikes to school is sharing the road with cars most of the way. This is one reason it can be more dangerous than you might think to have commute traffic on school routes -- especially commute traffic from out of town, where people aren't used to sharing the road with kids.

Please please this is important. We just had a funeral of a 14 year old bellarmine kid run over by a car. I worry about my kid in school. This is a very serious issue. Outsiders have very little concern when driving around and most of them are rushing and paying very little attention.

Yes, this is a great idea. I live in Mountain View at the Springer Elementary school crossing walk. Everyday I see so many cars and trucks race through this intersection (many with 1 driver, commuter) during the rush hour in the morning and the evening. Even though the posted speed limited is 15MPH many of these drivers go as fast as possible (sometime driving in the bike lane or center divided lane). Waze maps provide this route to commuters to take short-cuts rather than the highways and safer routes. Would be great to have a way to include these schools in the routes. Also, the google cars drive through every day and automatically follow the speed limits. Would be cool if Waze could limit the route flows based on speed limits that that the fastest speeder. We had a pedestrian death last week in Mtn View and another in Palo Alto. The traffic load is growing and safety needs to be a priority for the drivers and the corporations providing the information (encouraging these drivers to speed). thanks