Do you often drive on HOV lanes and want to help us improve how Waze routes them?
Fill out this form with info on a recent route (1 per form) so we can better understand the issue.
Waze will use the info you provide to identify HOV lanes you drove while using the app, to improve our ability to detect HOV lanes for other users and in accordance with the Waze Privacy Policy.
How recent does it need to be, and how long a trip? Would 5 minutes spent in the HOT lane two weeks ago be worth submitting? (Exact times are easily identified on toll statements.)
Its worth a try, 2 weeks is a bit much, but it doesnt hurt to submit it. I don’t know exactly how long the drives are retained in your individual logs. But any minutes spent in the HOV/T is worth reporting, definitely report it if you drive through them again, each time.
Anything helps! Recent should be max 2 weeks, no matter how long you’ve spent on the HOV lane, as long as it was on purpose and not by mistake (entering and immediately exiting).
I drive the HOV lane daily, when I look at the estimated arrival time when I leave my house, vs the HOV actual time I save a minimum of 20 minute.
In California we have some designated offramps for HOV that are also optional toll lanes. I would love to be able to tag where these are.
Today, taking the I880 south to 237 W ramp toll/HOV lane I saved over 15 minutes in traffic (for about 2 miles worth of road). It would be hugely valuable to track those time savings or to hit an “HOV lane” button. It would also be nice to indicated when there is an HOV lane slow vs a standard traffic stop.
FYI congrats, I’ve been informed by staff waze now has accumulated enough data in the meantime with this form. For now there is no more need to keep filling it out. They’ll let is know when they made progress on implementing the actual feature. Thanks everyone who contributed.
Editors should be able to designate a road/lane as HOV. I frequently drive 57S-91W and reverse, there is a dedicated transition ramp each direction that often bypasses the normal bottleneck.
I don’t understand how. If they took anything that mentioned HOV off the map that would indicate they’re moving away from it, not towards it. https://wiki.waze.com/wiki/HOV
This page is now null and void since they’ve removed HOV-2 and HOV-3 from the time based restrictions.
The state I live in is spending billions on HOV lanes. It’s probably what 3 our of 4 road dollars is spent on. Yet Waze continues to flounder on giving us anything close to it.
I assume maybe it’s due to development reasons. Initially wanted to implement it one way and now have a different thought.
The wiki is a pure community product, so it isn’t indicating anything.
I have the opposite problem I live in CA (los angeles/Orange county) and more often than not when im driving solo - all of the 3 proposed routes by waze tells me to get into the carpool / HOV lane. There should be a button or a switch in the waze app… kinda like the “avoid toll road” switch which would forbid waze to suggest any route that involves one getting into the HOV/Carpool lane.
The specific problem is there is no way to tell/use waze when operating as a solo driver which is stupid. Another solution would be when you start waze for it to ask you how many people are in the car. Im all for safety but seriously when in gridlock traffic - you are stopped most of the time, so i just hit “im the passenger” button when i start waze and am on the road… but even when you set your destination while parked, then proceed it still thinks im able to enter the carpool/HOV lane. there are no time resurrections for most HOV lanes per say in CA but it is MANDATORY for there to be at least 2 people in the car to use the HOV/carpool lane in CA. So when im driving solo and it suggests using carpool/HOV lane its really useless as i cant take any of the proposed routes.
Once there is a way to select HOV-based routing, those issues should go away. In the meantime, HOV in SoCal is usually mapped as a parking lot road (PLR) to generally avoid routing onto it. The problem is when traffic is bad enough, Waze will route to the HOV despite the penalty associated with PLR.
