bypass route
Way around congestion
A bypass route is a road that skirts around a congested area rather than passing through it, typically diverting traffic away from a town center or urban core: Take the bypass route to avoid downtown traffic.
The term appears in road signage and navigation, often shortened to simply bypass.
- detourAlternate path around obstruction
- cut throughCross directly, ignoring boundaries
- alternateOccur in succession
- highwayMajor road for travel
- rampSloped connecting surface
overpass · underpass · traffic circle · diversion · roundabout · cutoff · workaround · loop · expressway · arterial · service road · backroad · back road · side street · circumvent · skirt · avoid · freeway
- alternate routesdetour, diversion, shortcut, workaround, back road
- road mapsroad atlas, highway map, street map, city map, country map
- railwaystrains, train, locomotives, locomotive, tracks
- transitbus, subway, train, metro, light rail
directness of path
bypass routedirect route
Straightest path available
direct path · straight path · main road · shortcut · beeline
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