From now on, all new, approved AM areas will automatically include full closure rights. This will mean that Area Managers will be able to directly manage closures within their area, even for roads locked above their rank.

If you are already an active and contributing Area Manager, you may request to have closure rights for your home area only. Please send us an email via the usual address, with a permalink of the area you'd like rights to.

We reserve the right to refuse requests from anyone we feel isn't fulfilling their role of AM.

With great power, some great responsibility. AMs must be mindful that a) closures will directly affect routing for users who rely on Waze daily, and b) closure information that is available online is often unreliable. Therefore, when closing a road, AMs must accept for responsibility for that closure, and deal with any comments* or URs that come back from users. (*Comments from users are only visible within the app)

General guidelines:

• Roads can be closed for up to 6 months, in one or both directions
• Closures will come in to effect within a few minutes, or at a planned future date
• Segments cannot be closed if their IDs have changed since the last map update
• Closed segments cannot be edited until the closure has expired

We recommend that AMs do NOT attempt to manage real-time closures due to unplanned incidents. It is exceedingly difficult, and requires constant monitoring of traffic information.

Refer to the Wiki page on How to Use the WME Closure Feature.
See also the original thread about Reporting Road Closures

Please post questions / comments below.