I drive for Uber and Waze always directs me to alleys. This is very annoying and confusing. I have to pick up and drop off riders in front of their residences, not in the back. Also, driving through Chicago's alleys is illegal unless the driver resides on the block the alley is behind. I wish it would direct me to the front door of my destinations. Please make a selection available to avoid alleys like the app has for dirt roads or freeways and toll roads. That would be very helpful. Aside from the alley issue, I think Waze is amazing and I tell everyone I know to use it. Thank you.

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

Can you avoid the practice of pointing the destination to an alley? Is it my phone or your system that let us go to an alley as the final destination. It is plain ridiculous.

This. Please, please do not pick alleys as end points for trips. I would even support a "No Alleys" filter, similar to toll roads and highways. Chicago is a city of alleys. They are service routes, not thoroughfares and most certainly not where a ride share should be expected to pick up or drop off.

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.)

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.

Please stop using alleys or have an option to block ASAP

The routing through alleys has got to stop. At the very least, please have an "alley/no alley" preference in settings. I drive in Chicago, too, putting on about 200 miles weekly. Not only does this delay arrivals, it makes drivers look foolish and inexperienced. It also, quite frankly, is extremely uncomfortable for both driver and passenger, particularly at night.

This is what I had in mind... which would also solve your problem: https://www.waze.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=657&t=113062

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 fellows

Thank You

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, ...

Yes! Please!

I think there should be a option on avoiding alleys please update it as soon as possible

everybody is having the same problem

fix it please

Agree!!

Same problem here.

I have the same issue. The biggest problem is that waze do that almost every time.

The problem with addresses being set back in the alleys would be solved if you had an option to avoid alleys.

Shoild be able to block alley routing

Waze often makes impractical routes that take you on the freeway for one or two miles, sometimes less, because it shaves off the ETA by one or two minutes. Waze also has a tendency to make you do zig zags which adds a lot of unnecessary unprotected left turns. Waze would be a lot more useful if it did a better job of utilizing main roads and making more straightforward routes.

In addition, there should be a way to choose to take local roads over freeways, depending on how bad traffic is. Sometimes it feels better to be slowed by lights than being stop and go on the freeway, even if it takes the same amount of time. When choosing routes, there should be a feature that allows you to pick local roads or different freeway routes.