Sorry 2SD, I cannot agree with you. I commute on the bike and drive on that piece of road every day.
Even while I am intensely aware of bikes when in the car, I have had a couple huge frights with bikes sneaking up on me in the emergency lane, just because you do not expect to see them there. At the William Nicol offramp on the N1 South every morning there is a huge traffic jam, and the cars do strange things to try and make up one place in the traffic jam. Is it right - no it is not. Am I (in the car on or the bike) going to try and enforce my rights when there are hundreds of motorists jumping lanes, no I will not.
First of all, riding in the EL on that stretch of road puts you VERY close to the concrete barrier, in a lane with lots of debris etc. on it. As can be seen from this incident, it puts you at the mercy of what a motorist will do, with no place to go but into the barrier. It also puts you at risk if you blow a tyre, break a chain or whatever else can go wrong on a bike, once again with no place to go but either into the fast lane traffic or the concrete barier.
RIP biker, and strongs to the other motorist involved