I walked to work for over a decade before I retired. I stopped at all the red lights and beat the cars most days. Bikes and pedestrians can go much faster than

I walked to work for over a decade before I retired. I stopped at all the red lights and beat the cars most days. Bikes and pedestrians can go much faster than cars between lights when traffic is bad enough. Sure, there is favorable treatment (pedestrians get their own "roads" and bikes can drive between lanes), but there is no similar treatment that would make sense for cars because they are too big and insufficiently nimble.