Anonymous wrote:Waze continually suggests crazy routes to save 1-3 minutes.

I have used it when there is construction and sometimes it legitimately helps but one time it diverted me onto a street that was also being repaired that was also a mess to drive through and I could not turn back. Haven't forgiven it for that. A lot of the suggestions can also be impractical and less safe due to left turns across traffic, etc.

I will use a cut-through if the time savings is significant but not just to save a few minutes. Cut-throughs that become a problem get regulated pretty quickly where I live (with signs, etc.)

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Anonymous wrote:What a mess it was getting out of DC yesterday! Makes me glad I don’t work there anymore!

It was particularly bad on the Clara Barton Parkway. Waze routed me off Clara Barton and through the Palisades neighborhood- MacArthur Blvd, Sherrier Place and Arizona Avenue. Lovely neighborhood, but in my driving I wondered if this traffic madness was a daily occurrence through this neighborhood? And it wasn’t just the volume of cars, but disregard for law and order- running stop signs, driving the wrong way on streets (I saw multiple cars pass lines of other cars to get ahead of others), illegal u-turns, blocking intersections, and more. It was pure chaos! Obviously, I was part of the problem, but was curious if the local neighborhoods had looked into this? Waze and Google Maps are great, but one thing I’ve noticed is it’s turned many small neighborhoods into commuter routes.

The bike lanes on Arizona Ave have rendered that street inoperable during rush hour.

Anonymous wrote:Waze continually suggests crazy routes to save 1-3 minutes.

I have used it when there is construction and sometimes it legitimately helps but one time it diverted me onto a street that was also being repaired that was also a mess to drive through and I could not turn back. Haven't forgiven it for that. A lot of the suggestions can also be impractical and less safe due to left turns across traffic, etc.

I will use a cut-through if the time savings is significant but not just to save a few minutes. Cut-throughs that become a problem get regulated pretty quickly where I live (with signs, etc.)

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What a mess it was getting out of DC yesterday! Makes me glad I don’t work there anymore!

It was particularly bad on the Clara Barton Parkway. Waze routed me off Clara Barton and through the Palisades neighborhood- MacArthur Blvd, Sherrier Place and Arizona Avenue. Lovely neighborhood, but in my driving I wondered if this traffic madness was a daily occurrence through this neighborhood? And it wasn’t just the volume of cars, but disregard for law and order- running stop signs, driving the wrong way on streets (I saw multiple cars pass lines of other cars to get ahead of others), illegal u-turns, blocking intersections, and more. It was pure chaos! Obviously, I was part of the problem, but was curious if the local neighborhoods had looked into this? Waze and Google Maps are great, but one thing I’ve noticed is it’s turned many small neighborhoods into commuter routes.

The bike lanes on Arizona Ave have rendered that street inoperable during rush hour.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What a mess it was getting out of DC yesterday! Makes me glad I don’t work there anymore!

It was particularly bad on the Clara Barton Parkway. Waze routed me off Clara Barton and through the Palisades neighborhood- MacArthur Blvd, Sherrier Place and Arizona Avenue. Lovely neighborhood, but in my driving I wondered if this traffic madness was a daily occurrence through this neighborhood? And it wasn’t just the volume of cars, but disregard for law and order- running stop signs, driving the wrong way on streets (I saw multiple cars pass lines of other cars to get ahead of others), illegal u-turns, blocking intersections, and more. It was pure chaos! Obviously, I was part of the problem, but was curious if the local neighborhoods had looked into this? Waze and Google Maps are great, but one thing I’ve noticed is it’s turned many small neighborhoods into commuter routes.

The bike lanes on Arizona Ave have rendered that street inoperable during rush hour.

Anonymous wrote:Waze and other navigation apps are the bane of neighborhoods everywhere now. Formerly quiet neighborhood roads are full of jackass cut through drivers who don’t care about the speed limit or pedestrians or children playing outside. Stay in the main roads and just be patient.

Anonymous wrote:Waze and other navigation apps are the bane of neighborhoods everywhere now. Formerly quiet neighborhood roads are full of jackass cut through drivers who don’t care about the speed limit or pedestrians or children playing outside. Stay in the main roads and just be patient.

Anonymous wrote:What a mess it was getting out of DC yesterday! Makes me glad I don’t work there anymore!

It was particularly bad on the Clara Barton Parkway. Waze routed me off Clara Barton and through the Palisades neighborhood- MacArthur Blvd, Sherrier Place and Arizona Avenue. Lovely neighborhood, but in my driving I wondered if this traffic madness was a daily occurrence through this neighborhood? And it wasn’t just the volume of cars, but disregard for law and order- running stop signs, driving the wrong way on streets (I saw multiple cars pass lines of other cars to get ahead of others), illegal u-turns, blocking intersections, and more. It was pure chaos! Obviously, I was part of the problem, but was curious if the local neighborhoods had looked into this? Waze and Google Maps are great, but one thing I’ve noticed is it’s turned many small neighborhoods into commuter routes.