Add a gate/restricted option for gated communities/parks/highways and time of travel restrictions
There are some roads that you can only travel on if you have permission, such as a private road that requires a gate code or key. There are other public roads that are only passable at certain times of the year (e.g. Hwy 120 in Yosemite due to snow conditions).
That private road may still be open to the general public during certain hours of the day. As well that public road may only be open during certain seasons. As well someone else pointed out that certain roads have turns restricted based on time of the day.
It seems like this can be solved with a restricted road option that includes time based parameters including hours closed or season closed. This way if you don't have access or its a certain time of day or year, you will not get routed this way.
You can add an option to the segment turn arrows for a restricted turn (yellow arrow) that will warn drivers that only those with access can take this route.
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Ryan Conley commented
I deliver for DoorDash and this is becoming a **major** problem. "Commuters" should know the area well enough to know they have a dedicated entrance, and after choosing a particular entrance several times overriding the route guidance Waze is supposed to learn your preferred route... or is that no longer a "thing"?
As a delivery driver I rely on Waze to get me to locations on time, and with literally hundreds of gated communities in the greater Orlando area that makes Waze a hindrance, not a help! Several times I've been delayed by 10+ minutes because of Waze's inability to understand that NOT EVERY ROAD IS ACCESSIBLE TO EVERYONE. How is that "fair" to the larger Waze community as a whole? Waze should be accessible to everyone, not just to the elite few who live in million dollar mansions that have exclusive access to shortcuts inside their McCountryClubs that they already know about and don't need an app like Waze to tell them about!
This becomes an even more critical issue in tourist-heavy locations like Orlando, where visitors are taken to a back entrance with only a card reader and no information about where the main entrance is. I recently had this problem and had to "force" my way back to a main road before Waze rerouted to the main entrance, rather than telling me to make a u-turn to go back to the location I couldn't enter!
Waze can already differentiate between "dirt road" and "toll roads," there's no reason why "restricted access" roads can't be a thing.