bypass routes
Ways around congestion
Bypass routes are roads that skirt around a congested area rather than passing through it.
A bypass route diverts traffic around a city center, construction zone, or bottleneck: Take the bypass route to avoid downtown traffic.
The term applies to any alternative path that circumvents an obstacle or delay.
- detourAlternate path around obstruction
- cut throughCross directly, ignoring boundaries
- back roadsMinor rural thoroughfares
- ring roadCircular bypass route
- outer loopEnclosing iteration structure
inner ring · interchange · expressway · highway · beltway · viaduct · overpasses · arterial road · shortcut · access roads · diversion · flyover · bridge · exit · tunnel · circumferential · junction · toll road
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