Prefer main roads
Please install main roads button, so in cities I take main roads instead of all those side roads just to save a minute but burn way more petroleum and drive zip zag. So if the roads will be similar time waze would preafare main roads, if time would be different fore 5 minutes and more it would take side roads. This would help especially on long journies, we're I can not zoom in every little city all the time.
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JEAF GILBERT commented
I also have the same problem, been redirecting to small roads and it’s very stressfull. Please add option “avoid small” roads or add vehicle setting (Small/Medium/Big Car). FYI “small roads” in Indonesia is around 3-5 meters wide, big sedans and SUVs don’t fit. I have tried “avoid dirty roads” but still, it doesn’t take me to main/big roads. For those who ride motorcycle, you don’t need to enable this suggested feature since it would be just an option.
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Kévin commented
Bonjour !
Quand on décide de ne pas prendre les péages lors d'un itinéraire, serait-il possible de pouvoir choisir entre les routes nationales et les petites routes ( routes départementales voir chemins communaux ) ? car waze prend la distance la plus courte mais il est parfois impossible de rouler a 90 km/h sur des petites routes. merci d'avance et surtout très bonne appli ;-) -
Debbie commented
I would love an 'easy' or 'direct' routing option that takes you along the most straightforward route regardless of it being fractionally longer than the fastest route. As a lone female driver, I prefer to drive along main, well lit, roads, especially at night, and I'm not bothered if the time taken is longer or the route is farther. Sometimes I just follow the signage and let Waze catch up but it's frustrating if Waze is still routing me to turn around.
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Dawson Gunn commented
On holiday weekends the back roads that waze puts you on are always packed make it possible for 2 people going to the same place or using the same roads to go different ways so traffic doesn't build up on those back roads.
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Mark commented
This is still a problem. Because of it, drivers routinely get lost and take 3-5 minutes longer to reach endpoints than they otherwise would.
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Hardian Nurhadi commented
hmm... found an old post. i think since 2014, our indonesian community never avoid small road. that's because we have a lot of wazer that use motorcyle. just adjust your setting to don't allow dirt road to avoid small road. because we use dirt road to be used for motorcyle.
thanks..
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Anonymous commented
Strongly agree
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Anonymous commented
When driving to a new destination an option to take the easiest route (least number of turns)
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Rodrigo Nahum commented
Hello,
I agree too... I'm looking to another GPS App, but unfortunately it appears that Waze is still the best one available. I'm so frustrated. Seriously, I'm considering making my own routes at home and printing them, to use them like in the old days. At least I would have a chance to UNDERSTAND the route I'm doing, and not just doing random turns.
Seriously Waze, why don't you implement an option like "PREFER HIGHWAYS AND AVENUES", that's just what I need, I'm no kidding. I live in a really small town, time is not a problem at all sometimes...
Best Regards,
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Kenneth D Mueller commented
need option to avoid alleys. Also in Chicago....there are no addresses on "lower Wacker" Never send to lower.
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omer commented
Now you have only 2 options- .shortest way and shortest time.
What about the simplest way - minimum turns and maximum main roads. I don't care if the way is 2 minutes shorter but I do care that route is full of left turns. -
Anonymous commented
As an Uber driver that is my one complaint with this app. My customers get mad at me. I try to tell them the navigation sent me here. Of course I try to get them to the front of the building but with all the one way streets it's not always very easy.
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alex commented
In Boston, MA many times waze sends me to the back entrance (public alleys) of a destination. Can you please use front/normal entrance. For instance on Newbury street in downtown Boston many times if you plug in a address, your sent to the back entrance (public alley behind Newbury street). This occurs quite frequently in Boston for some reason. Please look into this matter - thank you
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Veronica commented
I completely agree.
Hipmunk (travel) has an algorithm for "agony" which is a mix of price and flight changes to help select an airline flight that is the best bang for the buck. I'd like to see something similar implemented for Waze. It might seem faster to route me on tons of twisty little streets through 5 tiny towns but in reality, these routes are full of zig-zag turns past schools and hospitals. Making a right turn, then a left in 200 ft, then another right to keep slowly zig-zagging towards a destination isn't a great route and isn't faster in the long run due to congestion on these roads from busses, crosswalks, and the always-dreaded left turn in to traffic. These turns are also very difficult if you are not extremely familiar with an area and don't have a co-pilot.
If the Interstate is terrible, by all means, send me on the state highway. But only if it is the apocalypse do I want to be routed through every elementary school zone in the eastern half of a state. The theoretical 10 minutes are lost to the agony of keeping up with the routing.
This would also help with the parents who would definitely prefer that the wazers stay out of the school zones due to pedestrian/vehicle conflicts. (There is another suggestion about this.)
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Rarebit commented
something like this you mean: https://www.waze.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=657&t=113062
I have the same problem that waze takes you to the right place if you follow its directions, but the choice of roads it sometimes takes is abysmal.
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Anonymous commented
Please stop using alleys or have an option to block ASAP
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Rarebit commented
This is what I had in mind... which would also solve your problem: https://www.waze.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=657&t=113062
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Vincent commented
Hell I live in Indonesia,
since there is a lot of small routes which literally only 1 car can fit,
Please kindly add a new feature which allows you to avoid small road / route / passingway. Which I believe will help for all Indonesian fellowsThank You
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Rarebit commented
Waze gets you where you need to be, but you may not want to drive on all roads Waze takes you. One of the gripes I have with Waze, but also with all other GPS systems I know, is that they sometimes take you through very smal roads to get to a place while there is a very good alternative route which may be only slightly longer.
What I had in mind is a driver profile in the waze client that let's Waze know you want the nice roads for your car, or whether it can drive "anywhere".
In the editor a new attribute would have to be added that allows for this distinction. If want to go to place A, and my profile is "nice car" waze would need to select the route going the most over "nice roads".
More worked out information e.g. in the waze feature request forum: https://www.waze.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=657&t=113062
It would also be extensible to trucks, cars with RVs, ...
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Anonymous commented
Yes! Please!