Warn when there are railroad level crossings, introducing a special alert for those without barriers
I'd like if there is an option to enable alerts for railroad level crossings, with a special option for those without barriers.
Of course should be updated map editing too, to allow to insert these kind of crossings.
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Neil J Lacey commented
In recognition of National Rail Safety Week Sept 18-24 - please include in Waze a notification when driver is approaching Railroad Crossing. Not all railroad at grade crossings have crossing gates & flashing signal lights. Each year every 3 hours in the United States a person or vehicle is hit by a train. Please include this alert on your map navigation system so that drivers will stop, look, and listen at all railroad crossings before driving over the track crossing.
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Chris Sheppard commented
Alert settings for level crossings are there, but they no longer work in Waze!
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Eric K commented
I agree; even though owners of GPS apps deny any responsibility by saying they warn their users that they're responsible to drive safely, every time somebody parks their SUV on the tracks and causes a crash, they blame their app (and the DOT, and the RR. . . )
A warning or warnings could be added (relatively) easily using the existing TIO function: add a menus choice, something like:
"Caution, At-Grade Railroad Crossing"
which would create a warning prompt for "Ahead, Caution, At-Grade Railroad Crossing", and a prompt at the tracksThere are already J-nodes at most crossings, and the new TIO could be added systematically; and Editors would have the option to create a new junction to add the warning