I agree with your general sentiment, but not about the traffic lights. The whole reason traffic lights work is because 99.9% of the time, those hulking monstrosities we call cars, can just barrel right through on a green light, and when they can't, it's because something with a big loud siren is making noise. Bikes can't do that.

I think the way forward ultimately involves re-thinking the way we architect transport networks:

- Replacing large non-trunk roads and traffic lights with narrower roads and roundabouts

- Increasing the number, size, and separation of bike lanes

- Having bike lanes that cut through otherwise meandering road sections. This is significant, because roads are often designed to go in a very inefficient path for all sorts of reasons that don't apply to bikes.

- Having mixed bike/car roads where the speed limit is 30 kph.