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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Indochine Game commented
pareil en gros une option pour interdire une route sur un trajet genre Rouen vers paris porte maillot d'avoir une option pour désactiver une route genre pour éviter l'A14 du coup passer par un autre trajet
car ça serai pratique sur des trajet de pouvoir éviter certaine route sur le trajet que waze donne -
Anonymous commented
J'ai le même problème du coup je peux jamais estimer mes trajets sans le Duplex alors que je veux prendre d'autres routes à péage. 12€ pour les 5km du duplex que je dois faire ça me fait un peu *****
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Kristopher Fieler commented
This so much. I currently drive a compact beater because my nicer car got run over by a dump truck, and I don't feel safe driving over 45 mph. But there is one road that it always puts me on that runs 50 mph for several miles and has absolutely stupid drivers doing 70 the whole way. And if I go on a side street, it yells at me to take the faster route even though I just want a safer route.
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Anonymous commented
I always get stuck at this elementary school for 10-15 minutes while they stop traffic to let everyone cross. my issue is that they make you sit there while they bring the kids across, sit there and talk to the teacher for a few minutes, and then we have to wait for the parents to come back across too. :O
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anonyme commented
I want to blacklist a road (very expensive highway which is easy to bypass) but I can't. And on my road there are 2 other paying highways that are very fast and cheap, so I can't select the option to avoid paying highways. When we click on a road, we should be able to add it to a blacklist.
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Anonymous commented
Every day I have to ignore the (only) route Waze suggests out of 3 similar ones for my commute to work. It ALWAYS sends me on one specific road, which I hate driving, unless the traffic backup is 10+ minutes longer than the other two routes, then it might offer me the alternatives.
I would love to be able to add a weight/penalty to the dreaded road where I could specify some number of minutes where the hated route wouldn't even show unless it was 15 minutes faster than all alternatives, or something like that. You wouldn't really have to change the routing algorithm, just let me add a penalty to any road I don't like driving on.
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Anonymous commented
Completely agree - this should be a high-priority feature. In my case, Waze always routes me through a road which then T's into a high-volume, high-speed road with no traffic light. It is almost impossible, and very dangerous, to make a left turn onto this road. Desperately need a way to tell Waze to not use this road!
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Anonymous commented
That is perfectly stated exactly what I wanted to get across
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Mat commented
I think I will eventually switch to another app if this doesn't come up.
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John Marsh commented
I would love this feature so that I can avoid the M25 in the evening. Waze looks at the traffic level at 5pm thinking the M25 might be a good option but when you get there (along with 100K other people who have also just left work) there is a long go slow.
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Robson Oliveira commented
English: I think that would be quite difficult for Waze to rank streets according to a dangerous level rating, so in my opinion Waze should at least allow users to block some streets that they do not want to be routed across them. For example, I live near a favela, so a lot of times Waze configures my route passing passing through favela narrow streets. I know the place, so I would like to block these streets (only for my profile) based on my own experience. This would be very helpful...
Português: Eu acredito que seria muito difícil para o Waze classificar as ruas de acordo com um nível de periculosidade, então, na minha opinião, o Waze deveria pelo menos permitir que os usuários bloqueassem algumas ruas que eles não querem que sejam roteirizados por elas. Por exemplo, moro perto de uma favela, por isso, muitas vezes o Waze configura minha rota passando pelas ruas estreitas da favela. Eu conheço o lugar, então gostaria de bloquear essas ruas (apenas para o meu perfil) com base em minha própria experiência. Isso seria muito útil...
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Luis Eduardo Reyes commented
We have "pico y placa" in Peru, would be great to be able to restrict some routes by ourselves
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Anonymous commented
Tomtom has a thing called avoid part of route. It has a list of the roads like it shows in the directions menu and you click whichever one you want to avoid. It’s pretty simple
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Anonymous commented
Select part of area to exclude from a route
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Anonymous commented
Waze should create and option that will let you avoid a road a long Your route. So you can choose any portion of your route that you would like to avoid. Or a specific portion of a road along your route.
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Sally St Clair commented
Another use case: on my commute, there are three separate tolls I can take along one route. I'm fine with the first two tolls, as they're a fixed price less than $5. The third is a variable rate that often costs upwards of $25 each way. I prefer to take the first two toll roads, then hop off the highway and take the back roads the rest of the way there. The extra 15 minute drive is worth saving $25 to me.
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Eric Hofmann commented
ps. Waze is AWESOME!
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Eric Hofmann commented
I pull a trailer and many roads restrict access to vehicles with trailers (eg. Palisades Parkway, in New York.). How do you route around roads you'd rather not use?
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Olivier commented
Bonjour,
Il serait bien de rajouter dans les paramètres la possibilité de désactiver une route en particulier.
Je m'explique, j'habite à coté du duplex, le tunnel de l'A86 qui est payant. Du coup à chaque fois, pour une utilisation quotidienne, waze me propose de passer par ce tunnel même si les autres routes sont fluide. Je suis donc obligé de désactiver les routes à péages dans les paramètres. Problème : quand je veux faire un long trajet, il faut que je repense à réactiver cette fonctionnalité pour que waze me repropose les autoroutes payants. -
Terrence J commented
We were on a route stuck behind an accident. Waze presented no way to re-routr around it because we would have had to go backwards for a minute or two to get to another road. A feature to select a road on the map and say "avoid road" would be great!