Improve ability to report closures on forks and ramps
When reporting road closures in the Waze client, for each road possible to report as closed, you get an X with an arrow pointed down the path to be closed. The problem is if the arrows overlap, you can only press the top most one. This makes reporting ramp closures or closures at a narrow fork impossible. It would be better if when arrows are overlapping, each press cycled between them.
Misha Syeed
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Sigmun
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This idea is discussed on the forum since 2010 (https://www.waze.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=657&t=106874).
This is a must! -
cameraguy
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I agree 100%
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Zoey Boles commented
Excellent suggestions elsewhere include:
1) Shift the arrows which would be overlapping down their respective lanes until they no longer overlap, allowing you to tap the arrow, even if it's further down the road in the UI.
2) Prioritizing the arrow for the route you are mapped to follow, so at least you can close the ramp you were expecting to take when it's closed.
3) Adding a "Ramp Closed?" question to the UI if one skips an on or off ramp for a highway, on the assumption that it's more likely that a ramp is skipped because it's closed or traffic jammed than due to simply missing the ramp.
The big problem here is that closed ramps come out of nowhere due to construction and accidents; for highways, except for perhaps an accident on the road, a closed ramp is a route-destroying incident, but the UI that currently exists makes it nearly impossible for somebody to actually close the ramp when they notice it... which means that every other driver behind them is not only being sent on a route with a closed ramp, but they, too, get frustrated by the inability to close it.
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Radwan
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When road is closed, driver is busy figuring out a way and when ready to post road or ramp closed then we are already away and can not post anymore
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Anonymous
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It would be nice to be able to report when highway on and of ramps are closed so the client software doesn't keep trying to put you back onto those ramps. Also can warn others ahead of time so that those wazers can adjust their own plan to get where they're going.