General Road and Highway Discussion

[SammyOES]

Driving down Victoria the other day, Looks like the Region is adding a stop light at the intersection of Victoria and Shirley Drive.

I don’t really understand this stoplight to be honest. I know people turning left there have a difficult turn but it’s not particularly out of the way for those people to go to Bingeman’s Drive and turn left onto Victoria at the light. I don’t imagine most of that traffic is actually from the section of Shirley before Bingemans Drive anyway as much as people trying to skip the bigger intersection on their way eastward.

It just seems weird to slow down the highway 7 traffic at this spot (nothing else around) and divert traffic from the bigger roads to this small two lane section. Because lots of people will probably start taking Shirley Drive to skip the busier turn onto Victoria if they’re heading the general Kitchener -> Guelph route.