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  1. Motorway Refuge Areas

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    Charlie Whitfield commented  · 

    These are called Emergency Areas on Smart Motorways and they are so far apart that we really need to be able to see them in Waze.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_motorway#Features

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  2. Visibility of Services coming up on UK motorways and A roads

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  3. Avoid Smart motorways

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    Charlie Whitfield commented  · 

    Be careful what you ask for!!

    There are two main types of Smart Motorway in the UK:

    1. Smart Motorway: variable speed limits.
    2. Smart ALR Motorway: variable speed limits and the ability (can be temporary or permanent) to use All Lanes Running mode which removes the hard shoulder.

    E.g. all of the M25 is Smart, but only two stretches are ALR.

    It's all here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_motorway

    I would like Waze to implement 3 features:

    1a. A selectable option to avoid all ALR stretches of Smart Motorway.

    1b. A selectable option to avoid all Smart Motorways. Do people really want this?

    2. A warning that an ALR section is approaching, similar to the "average speed check" warnings that Waze delivers today. It would be great if these warnings could be issued in time to re-route, avoiding the ALR section.

    3. Waze should show the location of the refuge areas (the official name is "Emergency Areas") on ALR stretches. This is critical. E.g. on the M4 ALR section these are 1.3 miles (2.1 km) apart.

    Thanks!