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Feedback: Request for User Communal Route Safety Marking

  • April 8, 2026
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As a cyclist and runner, I personally have encountered unexpected unsafe infrastructure on routes such as bike lanes or road shoulders abruptly ending and dumping me into car traffic or other hazards such as surface changes or construction detours/closures and know that this is a common issue for other cyclists and runners as well. It would be helpful to have a feature in maps to be able to add hazard warnings for other users similar to Waze or Google Maps to be able to see when making and taking routes. Passing on safety beta to each other is a great way to strengthen the Strava athlete user community and keep each other safer. It would also be great if there was a way to include car traffic speed limits on the maps as well so that users can sort and or filter route making by how fast the car traffic is approximately traveling and can better avoid higher speed (more unsafe for cyclists and runners or walkers) streets in favor of safer lower speed routes. I know I would use the mapping and route making features way more if these safety improvements were implemented. These features should be available outside of live tracking modes as well (unlike Waze and Google Maps). These features would also make sorting between commuter routes vs recreational routes easier as well. Commuter cycling routes and recreational cycling routes are not always the same. As a commuter a direct route regardless of surroundings is often preferred over a recreational cyclist’s preference for better scenery. And both still want to have the safest experience they can have.