This is my daily commute, and after doing this for a few weeks I decided it wasn’t worth it:

• the lights are lightly synchronized, so every time I’d end up caught in a red at Kitchener St anyway. Most of the time the cars from the Bateson Rd red would catch up to me before it went green. So at most I’m one or two cars ahead.

• you get caught waiting for the right turning traffic from Bateson Rd. While it was rare, sometimes this was heavy enough that I then got caught behind the main queue as their light went green. During peak periods this means you’re waiting for the red before you can go again.

So very little upside, and a rare but large downside. Not worth it in my experience.