Need some advice on tactics on this locaton - northbound on John Young at the 528 interchange: http://goo.gl/maps/JfgM8
Situation and Time of day - 7am rush hour - cars following each other quite closely, 45 - 55 mph. My speed about 18-20 mph. Traveling on the shoulder northbound.

Tried these three things:
1. staying far right on shoulder, even under the bridge
2. staying in far right lane (the merge lane for off loading and on loading traffic)
3. staying in the right through lane (to continue northbound)

Observations:
1. I'm out of the circus, but dangerous crossing the merge lane to the right shoulder, then back across the merge lane to the northbound continuing right shoulder.

2. I move to the right 1/3 of the lane because the cars follow each other so closely, that when they move right to the merge lane, the farther right I am, the sooner they see me (due to their driver's side being blocked by the car in front of them).

3. sometimes not possible to get in this lane due to fast moving traffic. However, if I do see a good break and do take this lane, worried about situation where a line of cars come up quickly behind me, the car directly behind me quickly goes into the right merge lane, and the car behind him not seeing me in time to not cream me.

So far, what seems to work best is to move to the right 1/3 of the merge lane, and then when traffic is slower here and I can see who is merging and who isn't, then signal and move left to the the right through lane.

Hope this is somewhat clear -

How would you do it?

Thanks a lot!