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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francisco commented
I think there should be a option on avoiding alleys please update it as soon as possible
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Anonymous commented
everybody is having the same problem
fix it please
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Anonymous commented
Agree!!
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Anonymous commented
Same problem here.
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Anonymous commented
The problem with addresses being set back in the alleys would be solved if you had an option to avoid alleys.
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Linda Marshall commented
Shoild be able to block alley routing
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Erika Kim commented
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.
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Anonymous commented
stop using alleys as end points for directions in Chicago
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LA commented
Ability to block routing through alleys
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John Martinez commented
I am tired of finding myself being told that destination is basically the only way to get to it is by stopping in the alley. Well I want to be able to get to their destination in the front of the house of course and of course I want to be able to do so with the option of being able to decide whether if it's a Tulane or two-way street which way I want to vehicle to face on that street as opposed to just pulling down the street
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Misha Syeed commented
The problem isn't when there's heavy traffic -- in those cases, usually the complicated routes actually serve to get you around traffic quite handily. The problem is the complicated route is still suggested even when there is NO traffic.
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Craig C Chen commented
I actually noticed that too... When there's a heavy traffic, it route me though streets that requires lots of turns.
I feel this is just a minor problem though...
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Misha Syeed commented
Based on my observation, Waze tends to throw up extremely complicated navigation at times. When following its advice in times of heavy traffic, the route is very fast and useful. However, even at times when roads are abandoned and taking major thoroughfares would be simpler and yield similar time/distance results, the convoluted path is still the one suggested.
I would hope the algorithm would weight every turn as a negative so that a turn would only be added in those cases that it provides an obvious time/distance gain at the time of navigation.