I started driving across Dallas/Fort Worth in rush hour traffic and I can’t use Waze to properly estimate my travel time at all due to its inability to differentiate between express lanes and toll roads.
You see, we have express toll lanes that run parallel with the regular road except they charge an arm and a leg for it to the note of $2-4/mile depending on time of day and demand. We also have regular toll roads that have no non-toll-road alternatives running by their sides and they are much more reasonably priced per mile as they were built under different contracts and terms.
I am willing to pay for the cheaper, regular toll roads but I refuse to pay for the TEXpress lanes as they are simply cost prohibitive.
Waze needs to be able to differentiate between the two to be able to give accurate estimates. My only options are to turn on toll roads and get a bad estimate with a shorter estimated time because it wants me to use the TEXpress lanes along with the toll roads or if I have toll roads turned off altogether Waze routs me to some stupid congested horrible nightmare of a detour that avoids the toll roads entirely.
Neither case is ideal nor workable. There has to be a solution for this problem as the way Waze works right now it’s unusable for this purpose. I can’t be the only one with this problem. I’d also say that Waze is unable to recognize whether I took the TEXpress lane or not because they’re too close to one another so it thinks I’m on the TEXpress lane and it asks me if it’s running slow which means it screws up the speed estimation for the TEXpress lane.