"Anything that avoids more traffic and pollution coming through our neighborhood is a good thing."
There has also been a shift to suburbs, perhaps to avoid crime and traffic, which are two costs of living in an urban area.
A lot of people use these roads to avoid traffic.
"They also avoid the crowds and traffic of beaches, and know where their children are."
If you want them to avoid traffic, you can use bus lanes.
So, she left long before she needed to that morning to avoid traffic, a missed turn, not enough gas.
Avoiding traffic was the key to this race after track management permitted too many starters.
The narrow fields are used by the pedestrians to move fast on foot to avoid traffic.
Taxi drivers go all sorts of odd ways these days to avoid traffic.
Just then, the big car veered to avoid traffic.