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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Allie commented
The app should let you view turn by turn directions and to "X" out or swipe away a road they'd like to avoid, and having the app recalculate a route without that road. Living in the city, there are certain roads that need to be avoided even though they are the "fastest." Unfortunately, they typically never are and back up a lot faster than normal. By being able to avoid certain roads, it would most likely make users drives a lot less stressful even though it may add a minute or two.
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arvan reese (sexgenderbody) commented
I second this. I drive toll roads in the US, but toll road 407 in Ontario, Canada is prohibitively expensive. I would like to blacklist a specific road.
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Anonymous commented
Seria uma excelente opção pra quem quisesse criar suas próprias "areas de risco", já que o Nível de Tensão difere entre condutores. EU mesmo cruzo por diversos caminhos que amigos meus não fazem nem por decreto presidencial.
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faromasa commented
excelente idéia. apoiado.
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Anonymous commented
In Toronto, the area around the ACC and Rogers centre is a constant cluster f**k. It would be great to be able to tell waze to always avoid this area since the beginning and end of games is always a disaster. Just today we were on our way home and instead of giving an alternate route home, it brought us to the centre of the disaster area of pedestrian traffic right when a blue jays home game ended, which extended our travel time by 2x.
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Paulo Ricardo commented
Sugiro a inclusão de um recurso que possibilite aos usuários evitar determinado trajeto ou via, uma opção em que se possa marcar uma determinada rua, avenida, estrada etc onde o planejamento de rotas do aplicativo evitará ao programar a rota para o destino solicitado. Locais de difícil acesso, com muito buraco, ou em áreas consideradas perigosas poderiam ser marcadas pelo usuário e até mesmo repassadas a outros usuários que seguissem rotas semelhantes.
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Anonymous commented
Locally the city puts speed bumps on residential streets around schools or day care centers to slow traffic down. Waze has no way to mark that street as undesirable for through traffic.
Also, a friend was complaining that Waze has mapped his route on some very steep streets - and on streets that his underpowered motor scooter can't climb.
Being able to map particular streets as undesirable needs to have a "public" and a "private" category - "public" for the speed bump streets, and "private" for my friend as his wimpy scooter.
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Anonymous commented
Waze regularly tells me to take a route to work that involves a train crossing that often has a train stopped blocking the road for up to an hour. I never go that way, because of the risk of getting stuck by a train. I would like the ability to permanently block that route, or routes using that road, from suggested routes.
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Yu commented
Add an option to avoid a specific highway and so permit to blacklist a specific route.
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Mor Krakovsky commented
I think if it be way that u can enter road you dont want to drive in its be easer.
I explain beacuae i live in israel there is ways that prefer not to go on, like 433 and even the other way is longer. -
Shawn Kelly commented
Specify roads that should never be used in routing or rerouting decisions.
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Anonymous commented
I want to be able to drive through only some of the toll highways, but not all of them. At the moment I only have the option to drive with all or none of them. I have the need to disable the navigation through a specific toll highway only, and keep the rest of them activated.
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Whitney commented
It would be great to have a "never take me with way again" option. There have been times when a route has had left turns without a stoplight into major traffic during rush hour, and that is not cool.
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Yael commented
If I know I want to avoid certain specific place, like a huge junction that there're no traffic lights for example - or a bad area or so, give me the option to mark the place and Waze would offer me a route without it..
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Chen Moyal commented
כשאני מאפשרת לאפליקציה לעבור דרך כביש אגרה אני עוברת לרוב בכביש 6,
לרוב הוא מעביר אותי גם דרך מנהרות הכרמל לדוגמא, ואני הייתי רוצה להימנע מלהיכנס לכביש הזה ולפעמים אני שוכחת לשנות בהגדרות ש'ימנע מכבישי אגרה' ישר איך שאני יורדת מכביש 6, הייתי ממליצה לכם שבכל פעם שהוואיז מתכוון לקחת אותי דרך כביש מסויים שתעלה הודעת אפשור: 'האם ברצונך לעבור בכביש X?' ואנחנו נאפשר לו את זה, כמו שקופץ אם אתה הנהג או לא. -
Luis Urzua Arenas commented
marcar un perimetro en el mapa en el que uno no desee entrar, que sea inexistente para waze y calcule el camino adecuado sin contemplar esta zona.
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Lorenzo commented
my idea is introduce the possibility to select the navigation type: for example, the possibility to exclude automatically payment routes under a specific km number.
i.e. under the 60km i don't want utilize payment streets, over 60km yes.Lorenzo
ps: sorry for my english... :)
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Steve Huston commented
When looking at the list of pending turns/directions, it would be helpful to be able to tap something to avoid that turn.
As an example, even through Waze has been with me on my drive for work for a few years, it daily tells me to go to a specific road and take the turn there, when the road before it has a much better intersection with less hassle. While the other road may be faster, I want the ability to tell Waze that I don't like going there, and have it *only* suggest that way when it is the last resort.
Likewise, when I'm taking my motorcycle I avoid certain roads around here because they get too backed up, busy, and hectic. The route that I take is most certainly longer, but it would be good to be able to tell Waze that I wish to avoid that one highway unless there is no other alternative for getting home (ie, the other road I normally take might have an accident or closure).
Both of these would not only require storing more information about me (and the roads/intersections I've said I like to avoid) but would also require weighting in the algorithm to determine at what point does my desire to avoid an intersection get overridden by the fact that the alternatives are slower, closed, or otherwise undesirable.
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Daniel Noormohamed commented
For example one of the country lanes i was taken on was so narrow i had to continuously stop/slowdown to let other cars past coming towards me. my cars big Audi A8. so maybe car size can be factored into this somehow. only saying...
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Julius T commented
I like calling this the "avoid ghetto" option