I live in a residential neighborhood with a lot of small children that people have been using lately to avoid traffic at a traffic light on the main street. They are cutting through at very high speeds, running stop signs, and not yielding to pedestrians. I’ve heard that we can petition Waze to remove us an an option to cut through. Can someone help me with this please?
If there are legal signs posted by your city the prohibit cutting through your neighborhood, then Waze can adjust routing to avoid cutting through a neighborhood. We do not generally disable legal routes.
I would recommend talking to your city/town about the legal aspects, then contacting the specific local community within the Waze forum to get the map updated accordingly.
To add to the reply:
Waze (or any navigation app) does not tell drivers to speed or run stop signs. If they are doing that, it is because they are bad drivers and has nothing to do with any navigation app.
I would imagine that the majority of the drivers that do this are not taking the cut through because a navigation app tells them to, they are stuck at the light and see the road and take it knowing that the navigation app (if they are using one) will recalculate and get them a new route.
Personally, I would see about getting the local law enforcement to step up patrol and issue tickets for speeders and such.
I very much understand that Waze doesn’t tell people to break traffic laws. I don’t understand the need for a rude, snarky reply. You could have just ignored this.
My apologies if it came across as rude, I was just providing additional information that may not have been considered or thought of.
I only mentioned that Waze does not tell people to speed because you asked if we could do something to avoide routing through the neighborhood because people are speeding and running stop signs.
The problem is that Waze is creating a Routing Solution that uses residential tertiary Roads that have Stop Signs, Speed Bumps, Narrow Roads, Slower Speeds, neighborhood foot traffic, and children playing when the main roads are open and clear. There is a hierarchy of roads due to speed and residential restrictions that should be calculated beyond just a simple distance calculation.
If a Routing Solution is a half mile shorter but requires slower speeds and extra stops, it loses its efficiency.
The original poster does not want me driving through her neighborhood and I do not want to be sent through her neighborhood. The App has a setting to avoid unpaved roads, but not speedbumps. Speedbumps are installed to slow and restrict traffic. Waze does not seem to be calculating them in its routing solutions. Waze could generate a time delay for every stop sign and speed bump along the route to make neighborhoods unattractive to the algorithm.
The thing is, Waze already is taking all of this and more into account when it calculates thru-segment times. So, adding a delay would be redundant.