Originally Posted by
cooker
It may be well intentioned but that's not good driving and they're not doing you a favour. They're setting you (or a less skilled cyclist) up for a collision with some other driver who wasn't a party to the wave through.
I didn't describe the situation well. They are behaving correctly as if I was a car. I get to the intersection a couple of seconds before me and they treat me like a car and give me the right of way that is mine. My expectations when I started were that people would do the opposite and just go ahead despite me getting there slightly ahead of them. I will continue those expectations just so I am not caught off guard when it happens.