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?

Stop allowing tourist traffic to commute through local areas. I live in South Lake Tahoe, and due to the monstrosity of tourists commuters leaving the Tahoe basin, it now takes locals upwards of 4+ hours to make a 15 minute commute home, ON THEIR LOCAL ROADS. This app has diverted traffic through local areas where people have been found literally pooping on peoples yards because they have been stuck in traffic for so long. Not only is this disgusting but it has created numerous traffic collisions that make the traffic even worse! By allowing this to happen, the traffic is now backed up in multiple ways, instead of just sticking to the main road of highway 50. This is also a safety issue for emergency vehicles, at times the roads are extremely narrow here due to snow and it is hard for emergency vehicles to pass through. Would you want me to come to your hometown and drive like hell through your local neighborhoods where your kids and pets play? I am pretty sure the city has contacted you about this problem Waze, so please acknowledge it!

Pleas quit directing cut through traffic down my street!

I live within four miles of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge on the western side. Re-routing traffic to local roads doesn't speed up east-bound traffic flow when Route 50 traffic is at a standstill waiting to cross the bridge. No one is beating the traffic when the alternate routes come to a standstill as they always do. From whatever way, the bridge is the obstacle. With the local roads bumper-to-bumper, the safety of our communities is being put at risk.

Because of the bay's topography, most of our residences have only one access road and no way to come in "the backdoor." I have had multiple instances where I have not been able to return home for four to six hours after a local excursion until bridge traffic dissipates on my neighborhood road. As this situation that you are causing continues, how would you expect police, fire and emergency services gain access to our neighborhoods when a responder’s time is imperative in saving lives? Most of our local roads have no shoulder or very little for bypassing the jam. Residents living east of the bridge are experiencing the same issue with west-bound traffic.

We didn’t have this problem before the advent of WAZE, so please: How can specific local roads be removed from your alternate routes? Today is Friday with the typical highway and local bridge backup, and in this moment, WAZE is seriously endangering our communities’ welfare.

STOP SENDING DRIVERS DOWN LOCAL SIDE STREETS!!!!!!

Is this happening in a private subdivision?

I am a homeowner on this route. I'm tired of traffic being routed through my safe, family friendly neighborhood. This is dangerous. Of course, Waze is a tech company. Technology will destroy all of humanity sometime in the future. True artificial intelligence is disturbing, yet some misinformed yahoos think that AI is a good idea. Sentient robots will realize that they should not be serving fragile carbon-based beings, i.e. humans. Thus, they will imprison us and kill us. Humanity will not survive. Of course, I am a human (technically) and I am clever enough to resist our metallic overlords. Follow me to the survival of carbon-based beings. Follow me to survival of the human race. Follow me to the survival of what you hold dear. Just be sure to... FOLLOW. ME.

That being said, Waze shouldn't direct traffic on to quiet residential streets. Our neighborhood doesn't have sidewalks, so our residents need to use roads to walk on. The residents of this neighborhood know this and drive accordingly. However, impatient drivers using WAZE use this neighborhood as a cut-through and drive in an unsafe manner. I've lived here for three years and seen 14 incidents of pedestrians almost struck by vehicles. It is only a matter of time before we have a tragedy. Waze might want to improve traffic, but unfortunately, it probably will lead to the death of children in this neighborhood. Is that what your company really wants to do?

I find that the waze’s route is often tedious. I would like to see a navigation routing call a “simple drive” one that is fairly direct but with less turns and back streets. I find that the current shortest routing isn’t always worth the extra effort of all the turns.

Traffic in Los Angeles is bad enough without limiting what roads drivers can take. These are publicly funded streets and paid for with tax dollars. Move to a private community if you don't want to participate in society so closely.

Perhaps you can check with Google Maps too to know where the highway starts, Waze will re-route your road after you entered highway I think,

Having an avoid highway option is nice, but I honestly prefer the opposite. I’d like to take a highway even if it is a couple minutes longer to avoid some sketchy neighborhoods sometimes. Either add a prefer highway option in nav settings or make it so I can “avoid” certain streets and neighborhoods as if they were closed, even though they aren’t

I stumbled across this thread and although I don't live in your neighborhood, my neighborhood in Lake Tahoe, CA has been fighting to resolve this issue for over 18 months and I have some advice. Waze and Google Maps WILL NOT entertain requests from individuals, HOAs, etc. They will only accept requests from your local municipality or public agency (such as your town, county Public Works Dept. etc.). You will have to convince that agency to add some form of traffic calming measure to your streets or neighborhood entrance street such as "No Left/Right Turn" signs, more stop signs, speed bumps, etc and then report those changes to the app (and keep reporting until changed). "No Thru Traffic" signs are considered a suggestion, are not enforceable and will not change their routing algorithms. It's quite a process, so the sooner you start the better. I'm sure you've figured out that reporting accidents, etc is not a long term solution. Good luck and feel free to contact me if you'd like to see what our neighborhood has done so far.

I am a Waze fan, but the influx of traffic in our neighborhood is dangerous. We don’t have the infrastructure to support the volume of traffic the app is sending our way. We have lots of young children on bikes and walking, joggers, folks walking dogs and the influx of traffic is very dangerous. Please remove Embry Hills roads from your cut through routes. It’s become a serious public safety issue. Thank uuuv