What’s the best way to succesfully report Navs including Waze are sending traffic down narrow residential road with children facilities and playparks kerbside, instead of using the main A road bypass and B roads?
If roads are legally restricted to traffic, we will, of course, have that restriction mapped in Waze. If a legal restriction isn’t mapped correctly, please provide the location, and we’ll ensure it’s corrected.
Otherwise, we map by using road types. Residential streets will use the lower road type, “street”. A roads are mapped as Major or Minor Highways, and B roads as Primary Streets, all higher than the “Street” road type.
Unfortunately, there’s no other way of preventing Waze from routing through residential streets other than using restrictions. You will need to petition your local council if you believe the street in question requires a limitation.
(Please note that Waze doesn’t have a function to restrict traffic by weight, width or height, as it’s designed to be used by Private Cars, taxis and motorcycles.)
hi, welcome.
Whereabouts? we’ll take a look to see if it’s mapped accurately.
It’s end to end of Harvest Road.
It’s currently not adopted and won’t be for a few years at least, so legal restrictions can’t be placed on it.
The mid-section was connected around a year ago and nothing changed, it is designed for resident’s access and a max limit of 6,500 per day when the whole estate is complete (about half so far). But 1 month ago (maybe coinciding with the construction traffic lights being removed) I think SatNavs updated and now pushes N-S, N-W traffic along this road instead of the B road in the middle, or the A6 around the East. So the road is already at or perhaps beyond the usage limit; the traffic is nearly the same from 6am-9pm, no obvious rush hour - and never fully stops all night.
Locals are trying to get the speed limit reduced to 20 which should help Navs not choose the route, but as it’s unadopted, it’s a 3 way discussion and not realistic for a while. Currently there’s 13 loose manholes that bang and waiting to cause damage, cars parked all down the side of the roads, houses and gardens alongside the road, school at the top with people walking with prams and kids there from all over the estate. The traffic narrowings/calming that are for pedestrians to cross are not zebra so they are now also unsuitable.
Any advice to help undo the SatNav changes is appreciated, as the towns through-traffic and 40tonne artics are not suitable; and probably take longer as the Navs don’t predict the narrow, windiness and obstacles.
Thanks. Is the school on Harvest Road? I can add a zone for that to alert drivers.
When I ask waze for example routes N-S (A6 > A508) it avoids Harvest Road ok, preferring to stay on A6 primarily.
Waze does take into account the travel time on each road segment so obstacles, bendy, stop-start roads (e.g. the single-width passing places that road has) will cause waze to see it as a slow road and prefer the faster roads nearby.
e.g. Waze sees the section near the Woodward Drive junction as ~14mph because of the single-lane give/take there, and 9mph around the Blackhorse Drive junctions.