Avoid a specific road
I've seen a number of posts regarding this, and myself have wanted this on various occasions for a number of different reasons. The alternatives (avoid highway, avoid toll, avoid dirt) are useful in many cases, but there are also many cases where they simply don't serve the actual need.
For example, this reddit post (https://www.reddit.com/r/waze/comments/6vfd6m/can_i_stop_waze_from_rerouting_or_select_a/) is from a user that wants to specifically avoid the Capital Beltway (I-495). Not because it's a highway, and not because of a perceived inability for Waze to determine traffic, but just as a personal preference. As another example, sometimes when driving through D.C. or Baltimore, I find myself wanting to avoid certain local roads at night time, specifically ones where the street lights are not working. There are many personal preference reasons one might have to want to avoid a specific road! And hearing things like "you can use this other option" is usually not helpful, because the asker of the question has already explored the menu and found those options!
There are a couple ways this could be presented to the user. In the settings menu, I could see a list of roads you want to avoid, and a button to add a road, which takes you to the map, possible with a search option. Maybe when navigating the map normally, one of the things a long-press gets you is the ability to mark a road to avoid. Maybe when you are presented with a list of directions, you can swipe away a turn to indicate you don't want to go onto that road, and you're then asked "this trip only / this and all future trips?"
This is getting long-winded. It suffices to say I've thought about this a lot and would like to see this feature. Thanks for reading.
Thanks for your feedback. At this time, this doesn't fit on our roadmap, but we'll keep it in mind for future product planning.
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Fenglu Li commented
add a function where you can set the location that you don't want to pass by.
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Bagus Putra Perdana commented
Damn u waze u got me stuck on small road dead end its suppse to be only for motorcycle the road get narrower ur map is idiot
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Moshe Niv commented
עובד אתכם בהרבה פלטפורמות
עשרות עובדים שאני מכיר משתמשים באפליקציה מתחרה של איי גו
ורק מהסיבה ששם יש אפשרות להימנע מדרך מסויימת
ישנם הרבה מקרים שאתה כנהג רוצה להימנע מכביש מסויים - ואז אתה מסמן אותו והמערכת מציגה לך מסלול חדש ללא הדרך שבחרת
זה כל כך משפר את חווית הנהיגה - וייתר את אלה שמשתמשים באיי גו
בוויז יש רק אפשרות לראות 3 מסלולים חלופיים וזה לא מספק
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Bart Reunes commented
I recently moved to a more rural place, where a lot of the streets are small roads, that are mostly used by farmers and their machines. Those dirt roads are narrow, not really good terrain, and your car can only barely pass, but they are counted as roads in two directions. I find myself often on the same road both to and from my destination, realising I will have to drive backwards if I encounter another Waze driver. Meanwhile a bit further you can see the big, safer road, with less dirt, less conflicts, less problems. It would be so awesome to be able to simply tell Waze that this is a dirt road, or at least a road where I know the road will hit the bottom of my car if I drive there.
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Dustin Higgins commented
Every once in a while, Waze will send me down a road that hasn't been maintained and has several potholes that I have to attempt to avoid. I think it would be a good idea to have a "never take this road again" option. I know that you are always given a few route options when you enter your destination, but there are times that the options given all have that same road. It's easy to remember bad roads when going somewhere you travel to frequently, but much harder to remember if you don't.
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manielmoth commented
I would like to be able to avoid specific roads on every trip I take. If I could set it up to always select the next best route that doesn't involve a specified road - I would love that!
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Anonymous commented
Le problème est toujours là : impossible de désactiver le seul tronçon correspondant au tunnel sans désactiver la totalité des sections à péage… Et aucune alternative d’itinéraire sans utiliser le duplex n’est proposée.
Ce serait super que Waze puisse proposer au moins un itinéraire alternatif ! -
Eric J commented
Have the villain ability to avoid specific roads that are high traffic. Example I want to avoid i-95 but I don't want to avoid all interstates or I want to involve avoid highway 55 but not other highways and general
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Ken Thickman commented
It would be nice if you could say "Never go through this intersection". I have two I would add for different reasons:
1) Waze often wants me to use a specific on-ramp to the highway that is always backed up. It says 30 min for my total drive....yet I will spend 30+ min waiting to get on at the ramp. I NEVER want to use this ramp because it's always backed up.
2) There's a bad intersection. It has at least 3 accidents a week and has been on the county's like of intersections that need major work to bring up to current standards.....but it's been on that list for 6 years. I NEVER want to go though this intersection because it so accident prone. I would rather drive an extra 10 min to go around. -
Anonymous commented
Ça serait bien d’avoir la possibilité sur un trajet de pouvoir éviter une route exemple Rouen vers aéroport Charle de gaule via A13 avoir la possibilité d'éviter de passer par A14 qu'il nous fasse un itinéraire sans passer par l'a14 une option qui s'appellerai éviter cette route
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Navy commented
During my drives from home to work and vice versa, I would like to avoid some areas because in this areas the traffic fluctuate really quickly
Waze is always proposing me to go through them, but once I'm in these area, I'm stuck for a very long time
And when Waze is proposing me to go through them, I am not able to see how is the traffic on the main road of my drive -
צבי קודנציק commented
בשעת תכנון נסיעה שאוכל לרשום :המנע מכניסה ל "כפר קנא" לדוגמא ביום שהיו שם הפגנות
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YRCH YRCH commented
יש מקומות במסלול שלא רוצים להכנס דרך שם כמו שכונות או רחובות מסויימות וההצעה שלי שתהיה אפשרוך לערוך את המסלול כך שיהיה אפשר להוריד מקומות
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Anonymous commented
I think there should be an option to avoid roads with speed cameras and route around them
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Manuel Ruiz commented
Con el registro completo del vehículo foráneo, Waze apoyaría para evitar incurrir en infracción y que remitan el auto a corralón en CDMX
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James commented
In Sydney were have lots of tolled motorways I want to avoid, but I have to use the also tolled harbour bridge to get to work. Avoiding tolls sends me a very longway around, but If I dont avoid tolls Wase continues to try to send me via expensive toll roads that I'd rather avoid. Without the option to avoid certain roads I find Wase useless for cross Sydney travel.
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Jérémy Bourotte commented
J'aimerais avoir la possibilité d'exclure le dupleix a86 de l'itinéraire quand je ne veux pas l'utiliser. Il n'est pas considéré comme une route à péage.
Cordialement
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Anonymous commented
Nagyon jó lenne ha lehetne az útvonalon bizonyos pontokat kerülendőként jelölni
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Cody Valvo commented
I want to be able to avoid specific roads like I-95 but not all highways in general and if it could be during specific times like I wanna avoid I-95 from 8am to 8pm because of crazy drivers with to many cars on the road. But from 8pm-8am when I'm coming home from work and there are less cars on the road I would gladly use I-95. Because the feature now blocks all freeways meaning smaller 2 lane roads likr RT-1 that are not interstates get blocked as well and I have to use either I-95 or RT-1 on my way to work. Otherwise my drive time almost doubles
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Anonymous commented
Hello,
I leave near a incredibly expensive tunnel which is limited at 70km/h and that has 18 radars for a total length of 12km. I would like to always avoid that section, because it's not even longer to take the normal route. I don't want to disable toll roads because when I'm driving a long distance, I don't want to forget to enable it back.
I would appreciate to determine sections we want to avoid.
Thanks.