Stop routing traffic down quiet residential streets
Your app has a very narrow focus. It doesn't take the actual street or the people that live on it into consideration. I have lived on a very quiet residential street until your app has increased in popularity. Thanks to your app, our street is now like a mini-highway and two neighbor pets have recently been killed. Additionally, your ignorant app doesn't take into consideration that it is directing traffic to take a very dangerous left turn onto Briarcliff Road. The results have been numerous accidents. Please take Stephens Drive, 30329 off your cut throughs at once.
Thanks for your feedback. At this time, this doesn't fit on our roadmap, but we'll keep it in mind for future product planning.
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John Marsh commented
Please add Embry Hills Drive to the streets in Embry Hills that we, as homeowners and neighbors, would like to have removed from Waze rush hour routing. Just last week, Waze was routing traffic from one side of Embry Circle to the other, down Embry Hills Drive -- ostensibly to avoid one side of Embry Circle because of a slowdown on that specific side of Embry Circle.
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Lon Strickland commented
I am shocked that a navigation company would route traffic through any neighborhood. At the stop sign at Embry and Shabromat, none of the cars turning right to go back onto Henderson Mill stop for the stop sign and the cars trying to turn left pull into the intersection waiting to turn, which blocks people turning left off of Shabromat. Please stop directing traffic through our neighborhood. I would be curious to see if any of the owners of WAZE have their neighborhoods marked as cut through zones...
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Helen Strickland commented
As an Alton Road resident, I can’t stress how dangerous these cut through drivers are. They have no regard for stop signs, speed limits, or children on bicycles. Recently, my son crashed into the neighbor’a bushes to avoid being hit by a car.
Please, remove our neighborhood.
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Anonymous commented
Agreed. When I was nine months pregnant and crossing in a cross walk, was nearly run over - the driver didn't stop for the stop sign and had the nerve to honk at me. In addition, traffic is now so backed up that I must now leave my home 15 minutes earlier to pick up my kids from school because our neighborhood is now so congested with cars coming from outside the neighborhood to cut through main roads.
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Russell Spornberger commented
Yes this is true. I would add that many of the cut-thru drivers block residents from getting in their own driveways, and block the all way stop intersection at Shabromat and Embry Circle. Many also play their radios too loud. Whether its hip-hop or classic rock I don't want to hear it blasting me out my yard!
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Gwen Domspe commented
This is a residential area with a community pool, a school and a Church. A lot of children and residents walk around the neighborhood every day. People don't honor the speed limits & it is very dangerous. We often see drivers looking at their navigation system zooming through stop signs and sometimes traffic gets so backed up, they turn around and speed through inner streets that don't connect to main roads trying to get around. This is awful and needs to change.
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Anonymous commented
As I was combing through Waze's website to look for this same information, I found this request. It seems to have received very little support, and I'm curious to know if Waze has ever responded. It is killing our residential streets and endangering children. We are petitioning through DOT to have "no entry" signs into our neighborhood, but it would be extremely helpful if Waze stepped up and did their part to assist.
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Community commented
Stop sending drivers thru residential hillside streets in Sherman Oaks, CA when there is Sepulveda and 405 less than a mile away. What is an extra 2 minutes out of my day? Combination of fast speeds and backed up traffic on winding, sometimes narrow, hillside streets that were not built for cut-thru traffic is not helpful for anyone - Waze drivers or the people living on the streets (many of whom use Waze). There were 3 crashes in 1 month on my street alone, due to unsafe drivers. Seriously, Waze you are a "community" app. This is not acting on behalf of any "community"
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Angus Resident commented
I live on Angus and walk my daughter to Ivanhoe Elementary. The school year started a month ago and twice already i've had to yank her out of the way of a car rushing through. The street is narrow and there is a blind curve at the top of Angus. Some residents are trying to petition the city, but it is a process. In the meantime, why wait until someone gets hurt? It is bound to happen any day now. Please, please, please remove Angus Street from your rush hour routes!!
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Anonymous commented
Waze continues to direct commuters through narrow Sherman Oaks residential streets that can not handle the increased traffic flow. These streets are narrow, making the street unsafe to walk. Many commuters have hit parked cars and trash cans. Commuters also blast their music or GPS directions during morning rush hour traffic. Morning traffic has gotten out of hand with commuters showing little regard for the homeowners on these streets.
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Anonymous commented
Stop dragging travelers off the highway and on to a myriad of back country roads..im trying to get to B.
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Rachelle France commented
My neighborhood is located just off on Highway 17, the main artery connecting silicon valley to the beaches of Santa Cruz County. And when beach traffic backs up on summer evenings, your app routes thousands of cars off Highway 17, and through Glenwood Drive and Glenwood Cutoff as a short cut. However, it is hardly a shortcut. Because when the drivers get to the end of Glenwood Drive or Glenwood Cutoff the have to make a left hand turn across heavy traffic traveling approximately 60 mph. It is not for the faint of heart and very often during the summer months it is impossible. Us locals won’t attempt it on the weekends and will drive 5 miles back to the town of Scotts Valley to safely enter the high on the designated onramp. THIS IS EXTREMLY dangerous for your WAZE drivers.
What ends up happening, on Saturday from about 2:00 – 12:00 pm is that our little mountain road has hundreds to thousands of cars, backed up for miles and miles as one by one they brave the left hand turn. Now all these cares that spent hours attempting your suggested shortcut route, have to merge back onto Highway 17, causing the very traffic your app attempts to alieve, to worsen.
Meanwhile, the residents that live along these roads have completely lost their quality of life on the weekend. In fact those along Glenwood Cutoff have absolute 0 access in or out of their homes during beach traffic times as this is a one lane road. We have several elderly neighbors along that stretch of road and should they require emergency service there is absolute no way they could be reached. Also we wonder if you are aware the Glenwood has a huge section that slipped out from the storms the past winter and our further deteriorating and crumbling. None of these roads are made for this amount of traffic and are literally falling apart.
In addition to limited or no access from our homes due to the Wazers, it is now common to see people urinating and shitting in our yards because they have been stuck on the road for hours, drinking, fist fighting, attempting to turn around on the single lane road and getting stuck in the ditches that run along the road, blasting their music until midnight. And then there are those that speed through the curvy roads (until they reach the inevitable standstill line to make the left turn). On father’s day I personally was involved in an incident where a Waze driver was passing a bicyclist around a blind turn, came into my lane and as he and I both swerved to avoid each other the bicyclist was ran off the road. My neighbors have countless encounters like this every time we risk our lives and drive against the beach traffic. And because it is a rural area, there are several sections of these roads that have no cell phone reception so when the serious accident happens, there is often no way to call for emergency services. I guess it doesn’t really matter, they likely couldn’t get to the scene anyways.This is not just a quality of life complaint, This is someone is going to die complaint.
I am sorry for the tone of this email. I (we) are just frustrated. We beg of you to listen to us. To do the right thing here. To save the lives of those that will die if you choose to do nothing. -
Anonymous commented
אתם מפנים אנשים לרחוב חרוזים ברמת גן כמקום אפשרי להגעה לפארק הירקון במיוחד שיש הופעות.
לא לעניין ..רחוב צר ללא מוצא מאוד רכבים מוצאים את עצמם תקועים ללא תזוזה כי אין לאן צפצופים עצבים השכנים סובלים הנהגים סובלים ..תפנימו אין מעבר לעבר פארק הירקון סגור נעול וחסום. לקראת ההופעה של ארוסמית תחסכו לנו בלאגן -
Anonymous commented
why not partition the city to put restrictions on the road "no through traffic" 6am-10am 3pm-6pm or (something like that) they do this all over boston. Many roads say "local traffic only" or no right turn b/t this time and that time. or no through traffic. Very simple way to get around that.
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Sean McKenzie commented
Often when navigating major cities, there are laws where certain turns are restricted during certain hours in order to keep cars stuck on major boulevards rather than cutting across residential areas. A classic example would be "No right turn Monday-Friday from 7:00am - 9:00am". I often find myself presented with an ETA and then if I suddenly turn onto a road that was blocked by the routine algorithm, the remainder of the route will update to accommodate my decision and suddenly the ETA is cut in half. It would be great to allow users to control which restrictions are applied to their route. Obviously we don't want people driving the wrong way against one-way traffic, but many bylaws are unrelated to safety and it would be great if users could turn off Waze's adherence to those laws.
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Jill jordan commented
Could you please stop cutting through small residential street just to avoid a traffic light? This part of navigation is causing nightmares for neighborhood face with motorist speeding down small streets in order to avoid a street running parallel that has a proper traffic light. This is actually costing the taxpayers dollars because a street in my neighborhood is actually now having to install speed bumps.
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Anonymous commented
The drivers are reckless. The street lights are not that strong. People are unsafe walking their dogs in the early evening.
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Dianne Chadwick commented
Angus has become very dangerous during rush hour for pedestrians and drivers alike. I have nearly been hit by speeding drivers a few times. Many don't stop at stop signs.
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anonymous commented
Both of these streets do NOT have sidewalks therefore pedestrians are required to walk on narrow streets in which cars are parked. Waze navigation has added to this problem by creating additional traffic to this residential neighborhood.
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Anonymous commented
Our street is narrow with lots of children and dogs. Waze is impacting this great neighborhood to save a commuter 2 minutes if that. Please remove.