Walking in Waterloo Region

[danbrotherston]

The detour to go up Joseph is about 500 meters farther, or approximately 45 seconds at 50 km/h, even including turns, lights and stops, it's probably only a minute or so.

I checked on Google Maps (which has rather a lot of data), from Queen/Courtland to Park/Cherry.

1.1 km via Jubilee: 3 minutes
1.7 km via Joseph: 6 minutes
2.3 km via West: 6 minutes

And that's before we put the additional traffic onto Joseph and/or West.

And that's before you tune lights and timing to favor traffic traveling the detour route.  

And besides, I don't think a 3 minute detour is too excessive anyway, that's literally the worse case scenario where someone from Courtland is going to Park.

Also, the Jubilee time is optimistic highly optimistic, it takes me far more than that to go Jubilee Dr. when I follow the speed limit, and once you start putting pedestrian priority crossings, it will get longer anyway.