Delete Via Points

I do this all the time with 3 different Garmin Nuvi's. While on a route, you go to Trip Planner, select the active route, select the = and then edit route. Select the delete and then select the point you want to remove. Then save and touch GO and, as per the start to the trip, you select the next waypoint you want to go to.

Another way to accomplish this, is to stop the route. Go to Trip Planner and reselect the route, touch GO, and then select the waypoint beyond the point you want to delete as first stop. This way is quicker, but works only if the point you want to delete is the next waypoint in your trip.

This I understand and have done. I am not sure, but does the traffic data assume you are going all the way to the final destination or just to the next 'destination' in the Trip? I thought the traffic data only applied to the next destination in the route. To avoid this, I build the trip outside of Trip Planner so instead of several destinations, I have only the final destination and several via's.

Okay, you are referring to vias as shaping points, not waypoints. If you have a new Garmin Nuvi (2013) it MAY recognize shaping points (I have the Nuvi 2597 and it does but my older Nuvi's do not). If not, the old Nuvi's convert shaping points (vias) to waypoints and they become destinatations. I have not made a trip with my new Nuvi 2597, but playing with it on my desk, the first method I out-lined above should work. The shaping points (vias) are on the list of trip desinations that can be deleted. The second method would not as the shaping points (vias) are not on the list that appears when you start a route.

Thank you for asking this question as it made me check it out now when I was comfortable at home and not when I was on the road.

Just to separate the wheat from the chaff, I would like the ability to delete a via in a route or have the ability to do a Direct To another via or the destination.