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@HatBeard
it's not designed to allow them to go faster than the rest of traffic and it's not there to let them get the jump on the traffic on the right hand side it's to allow more traffic to get through each light phase and prevent traffic tailing back to the junction behind as quickly as if they were queuing single file.
drivers are still expected to drive at in a safe manner at a sensible speed and to 'merge' safely with traffic when the lanes ahead join again.
My experience when I've been riding in secondary position in a bus lane to avoid the drains is I usually encounter people who use that lane by flooring it, crossing the solid white line before the bus lane ends fully, passing too close to me and then cutting me up to pull across my front wheel so they can hug the kerb and make sure I can't get past to the asl to stop me from delaying their inevitable foot to the floor acceleration to race the other cars off the lights and gain themselves a whopping 30/40 yards on the other cars travelling along that road by moving a few spaces ahead.