As a community-based traffic and navigation app, Waze was created as a social navigation tool for private cars. Because of that, we don't currently support navigating in lanes dedicated to public transportation, bicycles or trucks.

Waze is primarily designed for private vehicle drivers and is not an ideal tool for bus passengers or bus drivers. While you can physically open the app while sitting on a bus to track your progress or see traffic jams, Waze’s routing algorithms are built for cars and do not account for bus lanes, scheduled stops, or public transit-specific restrictions. If you are a passenger looking for transit times, 2026 standards favor apps like Google Maps, Citymapper, or Moovit, which provide real-time GPS tracking for buses and specific stop-by-stop navigation. For a bus driver, using Waze can be risky because the app might suggest a "shortcut" through a narrow residential street or under a low-clearance bridge that a large bus cannot navigate. Furthermore, Waze's "estimated time of arrival" (ETA) will be wildly inaccurate for a bus because it doesn't factor in the time spent boarding passengers. Essentially, while Waze is the king of car navigation, it remains "transit-blind" and should not be used as a primary resource for bus-related travel.