Avoiding Delays, Tolls, and Areas
Garmin® is not responsible for the accuracy or timeliness of information concerning traffic, toll areas, or other potential areas of avoidance.
Avoiding Traffic Delays on Your Route
Before you can avoid traffic delays, you must be receiving traffic information.
By default, the device optimizes your route to avoid traffic delays automatically. If you have disabled this option in the traffic settings (Traffic Settings), you can view and avoid traffic delays manually.
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While navigating a route, select
> Traffic.
- Select Alternate Route, if available.
- Select Go!.
Avoiding Toll Roads
Your device can avoid routing you through areas that require tolls, such as toll roads, toll bridges, or congestion areas. The device may still include a toll area in your route if no other reasonable routes are available.
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Select
> Navigation > Avoidances > Tolls and Fees.
- Select Save.
Avoiding Toll Stickers
If the map data on your device contains detailed toll sticker information, you can avoid or allow roads that require toll stickers for each country.
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Select
> Navigation > Toll Stickers.
- Select a country.
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Select an option:
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To be asked each time before routing through an area that requires toll stickers, select Always Ask.
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To always avoid roads that require toll stickers, select Avoid.
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To always allow roads that require toll stickers, select Allow.
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- Select Save.
Avoiding Road Features
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Select
> Navigation > Avoidances.
- Select the road features to avoid on your routes, and select Save.
Custom Avoidances
Custom avoidances allow you to select specific areas or sections of road to avoid. When the device calculates a route, it avoids these areas and roads unless no other reasonable route is available.
Avoiding a Road
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Select
> Navigation > Custom Avoidances.
- If necessary, select Add Avoidance.
- Select Add Avoid Road.
- Select the starting point of the section of road to avoid, and select Next.
- Select the ending point of the road section, and select Next.
- Select Done.
Avoiding an Area
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Select
> Navigation > Custom Avoidances.
Disabling a Custom Avoidance
You can disable a custom avoidance without deleting it.
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Select
> Navigation > Custom Avoidances.
- Select an avoidance.
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Select
> Disable.
Deleting Custom Avoidances
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Select
> Navigation > Custom Avoidances >
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Select an option:
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To delete all custom avoidances, select .
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To delete one custom avoidance, select the avoidance, and select Delete.
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