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@Dammit
Slightly off-topic, but you could make a far more efficient bus by having a turbine (probably gas) that runs at a constant speed, charging a bank of batteries.
One electric motor per wheel and you'd have your propulsion system operating nice and efficiently- the turbine could spin at its most efficient rpm, rather than cycling up and down as the big derv engines do now.
A bus does need to carry a lot of people to make up for 2-3 mpg, if they were getting rather more than that they'd not be polluting as hugely as they do now, also.
Re motorbikes- I think we as cyclists are being a bit NIMBYish here as VV says, and on the whole I think that powered bikes should be allowed in the bus lane.
I would like any motorcyclist that thinks that doing 75mph down the OKR in the bus lane between cars on the right and cyclists on the left is acceptable to be dressed by Chris Crash for a year as punishment. And banned from riding a bike ever again.