Avoiding roads
Allow us to avoid certain roads alongs routes, (toll roads, construction, traffic)
Great news. Setting to avoid toll roads is already available globally. It is also possible to mark dangerous zones on map editor level, so the app could warn you if your route goes through one of dangerous zones.
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smartroad78 commented
See this forum thread: https://www.waze.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=657&t=154593
I have a route when coming home which I get directed down if the traffic is busy in the nearby town (where I would normally get routed). The problem is it is a single track lane which is quite heavily travelled during busy periods and makes it slow, as you have to give way etc, and tiring with all the concentration due to its winding nature.
Personally I would like an additional option to also avoid single track lanes (if Waze uses such information) but just being able to say I never want it to use that road would suffice :) After a long day at work, I travel a lot as well, the last thing I need is a high concentration road to wear me out even more! I would rather take the busier route and have an easier time of it.
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Anonymous commented
Certain roads might be better mileage wise but certainly not the best choice based on stoplight timing, road conditions, etc. I would like to be able delete sections before I plan a trip.
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Erick commented
A quick hold and mark as banned road would do the trick
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Soc Santos commented
This would greatly assist beginner drivers who would want to avoid freeways.
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Pierre-Francois Renard commented
It would be nice to be able to avoid specific roads depending on their characteristics... For example very small roads, where you are able to have only one car...
Thanks
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Jim Girone commented
Not just tolls and construction. When I travel from NJ to NY waze wants me to go through NY city. But I want to avoid NY city at all costs. Also, you should be able to select temporary or permanent change. Thanks
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saurabh sharma commented
In Washington DC area, highway I66 is open only to HOV from 6.30 am to 9.30 am and 4 - 6.30 pm. So, I wouldn't want this highway on my Waze but it shows -up. So, a feature to avoid a particular road will be extemely helpful.
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Anonymous commented
Allow us to ban (banish forever) the very existence of an obnoxious road from our personal navigation's... For example, not willing to drive thru dangerous ghetto, car won't handle a crazy winding mountain road or it's infested with street racers, vehicle is too much of a city car to ban reliably pass thru a beat-up stretch, etc
32 states thru a 48:state run, i80 i85 and i95 I'm looking at you...
BTW, please separate "avoid interstates" from other highway avoidance or allow prioritizing state/county vs "US" system vs "I" interstates. Scenic routes are a pain to lay down, and US system currently owns all over interstates in most areas!!!
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Mark commented
I am a truck driver in the southeast region and mostly in Mississippi. I'm instructed a lot of times via navigation, to take the "Natchez Trace Parkway" which I enjoy travelling on in my off time but that federal parkway does not allow commercial vehicles. I would like and appreciate to be able to select that specific road (and others like it) to avoid and be given the best options disregarding that road. Thank you.
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Ricardo Cruz commented
Agree. It would be great if we could avoid roads in slums, etc...
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Steven commented
There is a train accident on a road I travel. The only other way around is 30 miles the other way. Need the ability to post a roadblock so that waze won't use that road or at least an option to find a route that avoids that section of highway. I saw a lot of wazers before that accident and few after. Three weeks of incorrect directions appears to have discouraged some users. Clicking routes does nothing because the only other way around is thirty miles out of the way.
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alqamist commented
There is a road I usually avoid, because of the jam at the intersection. Figured that Waze knew the traffic conditions, so I tried it. This option would be nice