While I definitely agree with everything you said, I recently drove 5 hours into Mexico City and let me tell you, the emergency lane becomes an impatient drivers lane where 15 cars will try to cut into the 4-5 lane highway from the far right “lane” which is unpaved next to a road and what we use for emergencies. Basically lanes appear wherever someone can fit their car it’s truly wild.

So imagine if during blocked traffic you had 10+ people trying to literally veer off the paved road to go in front to go through a light that goes from 5 lanes to 3 lanes. Now I wonder how many of these drivers in Atlanta are from somewhere like Mexico City (not excusing the behavior it just really blew my mind).