We are cycling family. My five year old is the only one in his class who comes in on his bike. The other parents would like to do the same but will do so when there are safe cycling lanes. So please do help to make the roads safer for children

Cycle routes need to be much clearer and more joined up. e.g. new segregated route along Clarence Rd to TM spits you out onto series of inadequate and dangerous crossings. Benchmark: would a 10-year old child feel safe on this route?

My partner was knocked off his bike by a car driver in December and is still on crutches. I have had countless near misses myself. Having cycled in Belgium and the Netherlands, it's easy to see how there's room for improvement in Bristol.

I love riding out of Bristol on carefully chosen leisure routes - but riding across the city on less favoured routes is an entirely different matter. We need to connect the gaps if cycling is to become the default transport option day to day.

How about - allowing cycles to go the 'wrong way' on all one-way streets unless marked otherwise - making lots of 'lane each way' streets a single one-way lane and putting a separated pair of cycle lanes in the space freed up

The current provision, throwing cyclists into bus lanes is lazy and dangerous. Bristol needs a dedicated cycling infrastructure. I've stopped my cycle commute because of metro bus, which has ruined a safe, traffic free route used by thousands.

I love Bristol, and cycle everywhere as I see cycling as an essential part of my life for getting around and maintaining my health and happiness (not to mention that it's impossible to get around any other way as Bristol's public transport is so shocking). Recently however, I've had so many near misses on the bike that I've all but stopped doing it. Journeys ended in me shaking and upset having narrowly avoided a bus I am supposed to 'share' a lane with, or been shouted at by drivers or pedestrians, or cut off by some idiot in a fast car. I live in Redland and work in Bedminster, and all roads through the centre are dangerous. Do you choose narrow and busy Gloucester Rd and the Bear Pit, where people park in the bike lane and cut you up from behind, the dangerous road in front of the BRI where a member of the band Calico Jack was tragically killed over summer, or Park Street where you have to cross oncoming traffic to reach the small cycle lane at the bottom, and all of those routes horribly polluted and congested? Making a small cycle lane along the Harbourside is an improvement but not enough when it doesn't join up with the rest of the city! It has made me hugely upset. The city's complete inability to do anything about it and look after it's citizens, combined with the anger that motorists seem to have for cyclists, has recently even made me want to leave Bristol.

Bristol is appalling!