I attached one segment here of Northfield Ave in West Orange. There is a long length that’s similar.
It’s currently two-way, but the road is physically divided. The issue is mentioned in a UR here where the reporter is routing to a house number on the other side of the street. Many of the median breaks here are signed for NO U-TURN so there may not be an easy way to turn around and route back.
Orbit last edited, but he may have just been running a script.
I understand that if we divide, we will lose a lot of speed data. And most of this can probably stay as it is - - like the area down by the zoo. We can affect navigation with the PLRs and turn restrictions. But the segment I linked has house numbers. There are a few like this and Waze will announce “arrived” when you may need to still turn around… somewhere.
The median itself prevents turning left at the address. Then later, there are signs in the median preventing U Turn. I can’t see any route details after the spot of the report.
I suppose if he drove past the address, Waze would recalculate a route to bring him back? But Waze could also just take him on a right-turn loop around to the same spot - on the wrong side again.
My opinion is to leave this road unsplit, since only a short section of it is actually divided and the impact of it is minimal, affecting only a handful of what looks like residential houses.
The divided section covers about 9/10s mile, so that’s substantial. If you include all the houses on both sides of the street along that entire length, that’s more than a handful. I’m not saying divide it, just pointing out that it may have a larger impact than stated above.
If you are on the wrong side of the street, Waze will tell you that you have arrived, and fail to give any further instructions. If you punch in the same address again, it is likely it will find a new route that takes you in the reverse direction, which would work out. But it is possible that it will have you make a bunch of right turns, which would repeat the problem endlessly.
I drove a test for myself and can confirm that once Waze says “you have arrived” all routing stops. In this case, a UTurn is not allowed so the driver would have to remember where he was and try to turn around. Or - re enter the route and hope it gets him to the other side of the road.
Most of this road is businesses with PLR that would reroute to the correct side. But the HN portions are a problem right now.