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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anonymous commented
Rush hour in our neighborhood is now SO HECTIC. And so many kids and dogs so super dangerous with all the new cars.
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Anonymous commented
Please help us keep our Kids Safe
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Dorrie Hall commented
Waze has invited a nightmare of crowded, reckless and thoughtless drivers into our neighborhood. What used to be a pleasant calm street has become a passage way for danger.
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Nancy Oliver commented
This is a small quiet neighborhood with very narrow streets with no sidewalks where children and the elderly walk all the time. I've seen so many drivers speeding past nannies and strollers and they're looking at their phones, with no regard for the humans around them. It's extremely dangerous and the increase in traffic creates big problems for residents.
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Anonymous commented
It's getting dangerous in the small hills with cars driving fast to get through.
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ivette garcia commented
This is a residential area where a lot of little kids walk to and from Ivanhoe school. It is so dangerous and people don't abide to speed limits and often I see drivers looking at their navigation system zooming by.
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Anonymous commented
In the past 2 months I've driven through hurricane Matthew and a snow storm, so I wish I had an option to prefer only interstate and state roads, avoid neighborhood and local roads as much as possible, avoid weather hazards, etc., even if it added 30% to my driving time. In snow storms federal and state highways get plowed before local roads.
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Anonymous commented
Stop diverting traffic eastbound on N. Druid Hills Road through Toco HIlls to LaVista. It saves no time but ruins our peaceful neighborhood. There are no traffic lights so these cars get trapped. There are no left turn lanes so we get stuck behind them.
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Anonymous commented
Do not direct traffic down residential streets.
Warn WAZE users that they are on a residential street and to SLOW down. -
David commented
It is obvious your program is routing drivers through my. Neighborhood to avoid the congested thoroughfare nearby. Waits to get out of my neighborhood have increased as has speeding "visitors". I live in Concord California in the Crystyl Ranch neighborhood. Concord police have been notified. Your app has been mentioned in those conversations. Drivers are being routed in the mornings off of Ygnacio Valley Road to Pine Hollow Drive to Rollingwoods Drive to Crystyl Ranch Drive back to Ygnacio Valley road. Please do not send drivers through this neighborhood. It is filled with children and is increasing traffic and threatening public safety. Thank you, David
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Mike commented
Waze's desire to avoid bigger roads in favor of "shortcuts" is going way too far. The back streets are often narrow, slow with a lot of parked cars & sometimes speed bumps and even having to stop for oncoming traffic.
As an Uber driver it's getting embarrassing to take this inefficient routes. It happens even at very low congestion times.
Please use bigger roads a lot more.
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Anonymous commented
You have been routing too many people up Nichols Canyon Rd. in Los Angeles, CA. I am not being entitled to not having any traffic on my local road, but it is a VERY windy and VERY tight road with blind driveways and blind corners. People who do not know the area are driving very dangerously.
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Anonymous commented
The waze app has turned a quiet street in to a busy loud cut-through on our street. Looking at other forums and Internet comments Waze takes the "that's too bad attitude". Meanwhile people who thought they would buy a house and make a home are now stuck with cars running past their houses and having to decide to sell because of it. I live in Deltona FL and when I research this problem it's a national and international problem. Certainly there can be something built in the software to avoid routing traffic on residential streets.
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Vit commented
please make Waze not to navigate me thru the hard to drive, side roads just to save 2 minute or so. Also i prefer straight roads before tight streets with too much corners. Wish this is improved and user have more detailed choice regarding road complexity and time saving vs length of the path choice.
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Daniel Araujo commented
Please, consider cobbled streets at a speed of only 10 km/hour. So, they will be avoided unless they are the unique option.
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Anonymous commented
Do NOT let Waze direct drivers through neighborhood routes. Waze has created significant threats to life safety in the Bridlemile neighborhood of PORtland Oregon. During rush hour, residents can't exit neighborhood on to north bound dosch road, and have gotten stuck in never seen before lines of cars all the way down to downtown portland resulting in delayed pick up of kids, missed appointments, missed plane flights, etc. A normal 7 min journey today was 28 mins. A group of neighbors are researching a class action lawsuit - gathering data from neighbors and drivers.
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Jeff Anderson commented
I use Waze in my 38ft motorhome. Occasionally Waze will tell me to take a shortcut through a residential area to save time/distance then put me right back on the same highway. That is a shortcut that is just not worth it. I would love to see a feature that avoids those kind of shortcuts. Maybe add a tolerance, ie avoid shortcut unless it saves me 5min or 2 miles of distance.
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Anonymous commented
There are >21 children on this tiny street below the age of 12. If given "Cut Through" status on Waze type driving apps, it's not a matter of if - but when - a child will get hit. Please save this street from cars and trucks that have zero business being on it to save three seconds.
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Kam Sprott commented
I absolutely agree that there has been a big increase in cars and they are driving way to fast!!! There is no time savings in using Rolling Lane as a cut through and the risk of a child getting hurt is too great!
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Anonymous commented
Agree wholeheartedly. The cost/benefit of the turn is absolutely negative. Risk of running over a child vs. benefit of <15 second time gain isn't worth it. Please remove Rolling Lane as a cut through.