Single Lane with/without passing places
In the UK, we have a large number of narrow two way roads which are often only the width of a single vehicle. You can often meet oncoming traffic head-on with no easy way of passing unless one driver decides to reverse. Either that, or at best, you both end up with scratched paintwork.
Waze has no way of knowing which roads are narrow, so will often route along this type of road. Many of us would prefer to take a longer route to avoid this type of road.
I suggest that within WME we have a tickbox option of "narrow road with/without passing places".
Then, within the app, the user will have an option to avoid this type of road, just as they do with toll roads, motorways, etc.
I have suggested this at the last two UK conferences, both times with reasonable support from other delegates, but thus far, Waze has ignored this popular suggestion.
Pilotdave69
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ChrisC
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Yes this would be a major improvement. Recently Waze sent me down miles of country lanes. Initially they were ok but after 5 miles became very narrow with very few passing places. At one point I had 2 vehicles behind me and we met 6 vehicles coming the other, luckily there was a farm entrance which allowed us to get past each other. That situation was very close to being grid-locked. Being faced with reversing back along narrow roads with deep muddy ditches is very unpleasant. I really dislike those kind of routes. So I would like an option to avoid single-track roads or narrow roads with passing places. Obviously the routing algorithm would need to allow their use if your destination was actually on one of those roads, and in this case hopefully would give the minimum distance on the narrow roads required to reach that place.