Road built to avoid a city

I believe the answer is:

bypass

(Other definitions for bypass that I've seen before include "ring-road, maybe" , "Ring road" , "Road built to avoid another" , "Ignore" , "Round-about way" .)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Mail.

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