Your app routes traffic through our local neighbourhood and onto my residential street of Westover Hill Rd in Toronto, On. as opposed to major corridors that were designed to handle the high volume of traffic that is now occurring. We experience non- stop, bumper to bumper traffic through out each day on the street due to Waze. As a result it has diminished our quality of life, lowered resale values of our homes, impedes people who live on the street from getting our of their driveways to work & slows or stops emergency vehicles from reaching there destination in a timely matter. Waze needs to take into account the effect it has on the actual street or the people that live on it into consideration. My neighbours & I have lived on a very quiet residential street for many years until your app, Waze has turned into a parking lot without any remorse or consideration. Please. before you start routing traffic through residential neighbourhoods consider the impact as if you yourself lived on that street. I ask that you please remove Westover Hill Rd. Toronto, Ontario from your bypass route to Allen Rd and Eglinton Avenue.

I totally agree. This app has created a very dangerous situation on our Residential Road as well. I live in the Municipality of Saanich in Victoria British Columbia, Canada. The street I live on is called Wilkinson Road and specifically the section of the street which is between Burnside and Helmcken. We have 2 large Subdivisions called Knockan Hill and Piers Creek which are entering and exiting onto our section of Wilkinson Road. The Knockan Hill Subdivision can exist onto Helmcken which is there Entranxe but they seem to prefer to exist out the back down Helen Road and barely stop at the stop sign and speed up or down Wilkinson Road to get to Helmcken or Burnside Roads. The Piers Creek Subdivision has no other way to exit except onto Wilkinson Road. The Residents of Piers Creek have been cutting them the Knockan Hill Subdivision entering off Helmcken and speeding down Helen Road and crossing Wilkinson Road to go thru the Entrance of Piers Creek. Other drivers have been cutting thru the Knockan Hill Entrance on Helmcken and then speeding down Helen Road and then not stopping at the Stop sign and making a right turn and speeding down south on Wilkinson Road to Burnside. Then we have dozens of drivers turning off Burnside and speeding up Wilkinson to avoid the traffic jams on Burnside at Helmcken and on McKenzie to either Turn right at the top of the road to go to Royal Oak or to turn Left to go down Helmcken to get down to the highway to avoid the bottle neck at the intersection of Burnside/Helmcken that has been created by. View Royal when they lowered the speed limit on the View Royal section of Burnside to 30 km. and did not add an advance left turn at the light at Burnside and Helmcken. We also have speeding drivers turning left off Helmcken speeding down Wilkinson over the speed limit to Burnside and they also turn Right off Helmecken to speed down Wilkinson to get to Burnside and we have drivers coming from Santa Rosa and driving straight down Wilkinson get to Burnside and drivers turning off Burnside snd speeding up Wilkinson Road and going thru the light to go on Santa.Rosa to get to the Strwberry Vale area. This goes on all day and night. The residents of Wiki son Road can barely get out of our driveways. Children cannot ride their bikes safely on the street they have to ride on the sidewalk where the pedestrians yell at them to get off and go onto the road but they cannot because they will be hit by the speeding cars Deer are being hit and killed and family pets have been killed as well. These speeding drivers are displaying Road Rage and have no respect for the Residents of Wilkinson Road as they careen up and down this twisting winding narrow road at break neck speeds far above the 50km/hr. Please remove this Section of Wilkinson Road from up your app before there is a serious accident and someone is killed..

Residential quality of life is being horribly diminished by massive increases in cut through traffic routing. Not only are personal vehicles using residential neighborhoods for cut through - so are commercial - and this is in large part due to apps such as Waze. The word "Route" has a traffic control definition. I.E. throughout the country NUMBERED ROUTES were created with the intent that those numbered routes be used for traffic movement/flow. Apps such as Waze take people off Routes for the sake of sometimes seconds saved - yet with GREAT negative affect on the side areas that are not intended to be used for routing. Recently a friend was routed off a Route - and onto a residential street - only to be back on the route minutes later. We are so deeply enmeshed in a loss of/lack of common courtesy. It would be nice if apps, such as Waze, were supportive contributors to courtesy. Apps could be tweaked to help people get from point A to point Z, but without harmful effects on the abutters to roadways not intended to be Routes. Google/Waze - any desire to be the "Considerate App"????

Residential quality of life is being horribly diminished by massive increases in cut through traffic routing. Not only are personal vehicles using residential neighborhoods for cut through - so are commercial - and this is in large part due to apps such as Waze. The word "Route" has a traffic control definition. I.E. throughout the country NUMBERED ROUTES were created with the intent that those numbered routes be used for traffic movement/flow. Apps such as Waze take people off Routes for the sake of sometimes seconds saved - yet with GREAT negative affect on the side areas that are not intended to be used for routing. Recently a friend was routed off a Route - and onto a residential street - only to be back on the route minutes later. We are so deeply enmeshed in a loss of/lack of common courtesy. It would be nice if apps, such as Waze, were supportive contributors to courtesy. Apps could be tweaked to help people get from point A to point Z, but without harmful effects on the abutters to roadways not intended to be Routes. Google/Waze - any desire to be the "Considerate App"????

Please try not to use sidestreets as major arterials because they are not. There are commuters speeding through residential streets in my neighborhood and creating dangerous conditions for the community that lives there. Was shocked to find a little known road being used as a major waze route when people have to stop and wait for one car to go before another one can go because essentially the street is only one lane. Think about the impact on the community before you just decide one road is as good as another. Thank you, Erica Angelakos

Can be really helpful! Also doesn't good for a car suspension

I use it often in Hungary, in Budapest. Unfortunately, it often doesn’t show a good route. He puts a lot of cars on a small street at once. There will be more travel time than going the big way. Bad algorithm! The small street has a lot of feedback that traffic has stopped. Still, Vazze is directing me there. Bad algorithm! I turned around and went a big way and the journey time became shorter.

Shortest geographical route is not always best. Give priority to major avenues.

Update feature to allow for direct interstate instructions instead of roundabout directions. This reduce long drive times and surrounding neighborhood concerns.

Update feature to allow for direct interstate instructions instead of roundabout directions. This minimizes unnecessary driving time and neighborhood complaints.

Increasing traffic flows past schools increases acccidents and associated injuries and also harms the air quality in the area. Both of these are very bad for our childern. WAZE knows where the shcools are so could easily choose note to route cars via schools. You are now owned by Alphabet whose motto is "do the right thing" - clearly not routing your riders past schools is the right thing to do.....

Waze is not the problem. The fact that your residential streets are a quicker path from A to B is not Waze's fault.

Lobby your politicians to fix the main roads to eliminate the bottlenecks, then Waze and other products will not route their users through your neighborhood.

I live in a quiet residential neighborhood. Due to its central location Waze often directs traffic through it, the benefit being only a a small savings in time. This creates, speed, congestion, safety and noise issues. Coul Waze not add a feature that only directs traffic through residential areas when there is a significant savings in time, say 15 minutes?

Hard to believe that any
Of you mappers don’t have kids or dogs.,what a terrible and selfish idea sending traffic down what use to be calm residential streets. We spent many thousands of dollars building a front yard fence and countless years and hours convincing the city to put in spend bumps all because you thought you were being helpful. The bumps did not help. You share the blame if something should happen. I hope you are aware of it and that it causes you sleepless nights. What a disgrace!

Automatically avoid Low Traffic Neighbourhood Restriction Roads as they result in PCN's for ratrunning.

In the same sense I would like waze to stop putting me on expressways that are stopped the whole point of GPS was to get me to one place as fast as possible Some use to ask you quickest time or shortest route

The roads, dogwood trail, sea oats trail, hillcrest, and wax Myrtle trail are neighborhood roads that are specifically signed “no thru traffic”. Waze constantly provides directions through the neighborhoods for tourists accessing Duck & corolla, NC. It stops Local homeowners from accessing their homes and local services from being able to reach duck and corolla in a timely manner. Please stop providing service through these roads.

we have the same problem on my residential street in Hampton, NH that is now a raceway for trucks carrying cars and every other type vehicle

Hiller Street is a residential neighborhood, with a school and a 25mph speed limit. Waze is currently routing commuters through this area for a minute or two of travel time savings to connect between Ralston Avenue and Old County Road, to the detriment of residents experiencing increased volumes and poor driver behavior.
Please eliminate this as an option for rerouting area travelers off of major arterials onto residential streets in Waze.

Thank you,

Peter Brown (pbrown@belmont.gov)
Peter Brown
Public Works Director | City of Belmont
One Twin Pines Lane | Belmont CA 94002
(650) 595-7459

Is this a way to stop Waze from rerouting a stream of traffic through a small neighborhood street?