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I did notice it being more frequents though, in the past, there's always a couple of yuppies who hasn't finish their training taking the bus lane, but now it's quite regular.
Another point you need to take in consideration is the speed and reaction, being deaf I need to constantly look back as much as possible, which is fine and precisely what Cycle Training teach us in order to be as safe as possible, however with the high speed of a motorcycles (30mph) on a single lane, sometime I do get surprised by them because I couldn't clock them in time.
The only resort for me is to block the entire lane by riding right in the middle of the bus lane to force the motorcyclists to slow down and overtake me properly, this cause some anger and conflict with some motorcyclists, but least I won't get surprised by a motorcyclists overtaking me in close proximity on the same lane.