Strange route, turning around on the road

Map Editors Community Sweden [Swedish]
1

Received a report from a user regarding an inappropriate route to Q-star, Götlunda, Arboga.

Screenshot_20260522-090901
Screenshot_20260522-0909011080×2400 344 KB

So you’re basically supposed to turn around on the road and drive back to the turn-off.

I looked for errors and made various updates and moved junction points, but nothing helped.
Then I saw that U-turns were allowed at the western end of https://waze.com/sv/editor?env=row&lat=59.35146&lon=15.66347&s=94428901178801470832638&zoomLevel=17&segments=277147865
After removing that, the route became

Screenshot_20260526-112601
Screenshot_20260526-1126011080×2400 230 KB

I noticed that the route was correct in the Live Map and in the Routes script before the change.

The correct route is 3 (three) m shorter, though with a lower speed, so the theoretical driving time will probably be shorter, but hardly enough to outweigh the time spent turning around.
I think it seems completely wrong to suggest a route where you’re supposed to turn around on the road, especially when the saving is barely measurable. It likely takes longer in practice.
Is that okay?

2

I agree that that turn is completely insane, if for no other reason than from a road safety perspective.

3

Yeah, I had a weird route myself when I was going to fill up there about a month ago; I know I checked it and even fixed the road a bit so you’d get to the station. I hope I didn’t make things worse (Schlimbesserung), but I got that result and also that I was supposed to turn in where you weren’t allowed back then.

I had used the ‘add stop’ feature though, and that can behave strangely sometimes, plus I’m running on the route beta server, so I didn’t think much more about it then. I’ll see if I can replicate it so I can report it as an RBS bug.

4

It looks good now, and the new route under Road 572 is also the one signposted to the gas station and the inn!
/Ulle

5

Glad the post interested you, but I had expected some thoughts on the cause of the incorrect route. :blush:

6

Yeah, I can’t help there unfortunately :slightly_smiling_face: other than having noted it, but I can’t reproduce it now; no U-turn from here and it doesn’t take me into that forbidden (or for me also impossible) turn either, and I tested on the production routing server just now as well.

7

Waze will always prioritize the fastest route if no other restrictions exist on the route, even if the saving is very small in this example. Removing the U-turn then forces a more desirable behavior. So it should be resolved now.