Yup, between being able to move past traffic, occasionally being able to bypass rules of the road (e.g., even if you don't actually bike the wrong way down a on

Yup, between being able to move past traffic, occasionally being able to bypass rules of the road (e.g., even if you don't actually bike the wrong way down a one-way, you can still legally walk your bike to the end of the block in less time than it'd take a car to circle), being able to take the subway, and parking, I'm often as fast and occasionally much faster on my bike than a car would be. (My experience is also Manhattan/Brooklyn, though this was often true in SFBA too for short trips.) When I moved apartments recently, I easily beat my movers' truck via bike-subway-bike from my old place to the nee one because there was some temporary congestion on one of the main roads but the subways were fine.