Walking in Waterloo Region

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Obviously no one likes waiting an extra minute, but in this case people on foot aren't being asked to wait, they're being asked to detour. Ookpik's point is entirely correct: when we talk about a 60 meter detour- at every intersection- for people on foot, it "really isn't so bad." A similar delay for motorists wouldn't garner the same reaction.

This is yet another reason why I'm not a fan of roundabouts at busy intersections. In my opinion they work best at medium traffic intersections, where (1) a red light would be unnecessary most of the time and (2) traffic would be low enough that drivers can pay attention to pedestrians crossing.

In places like Erb and Ira Needless, traffic levels are at times high enough to cause long waiting times in one of the directions (starvation), particularly coming south on Ira.

They seemed to have become the fashionable traffic solution and be applied without due consideration of local conditions.