"shortest route" is a grammatically correct phrase in written English that can be used in everyday conversation.
For example, you might say, "Let's take the shortest route home to avoid traffic!".
And this is the shortest route to our destination.
As it happened, the shortest route from Norway to China was through the Arctic.
They embraced abstraction as the shortest route to universal meaning and significance.
When I returned home, I asked the navigation system for the shortest route that avoided freeways.
"This is the shortest route to Scandinavia, and it is an independent alternative to Western Europe".
They vowed to die and they chose the shortest route to receive the blessings of God".
Message be damned, our main focus was the finding the shortest route to the funniest joke".
Could we provide him, he wondered, with the shortest route to Minot, North Dakota?
Then as now, the shortest route to Tokyo lay through Alaska.
"On the contrary, it may be that the indirect route is the shortest route".
This is by far the shortest route, and avoids predators such as hawks.
