Cyclists are wrong to flout the law but they are also an easy target.

How many drivers in Brighton have been fined for overtaking a cyclist too fast or too close, using a mobile phone while driving, parking in cycle lanes, cutting up cyclists, doing dangerous manoeuvres, obstructing access for disabled people and pedestrians, speeding in 20 or 30mph zones, polluting the air with unnecessary car journeys and so on?

These pictures show obstructions in New Road and Argyle Road, Brighton, where motorists and building works have made cycle facilities unusable. Time for more on-the-spot fines?

Bricycles (Brighton and Hove Cycling Campaign Group) also opposes all one-way cycle lanes.

Cyclists should be allowed to cycle downhill along St James's Street, towards the city centre - the logical route for most people with a bike who live east of the city.

Cyclists shouldn't be expected to take devious routes away from shops and other facilities just because the road has been designated as a bus route in the opposite direction.

If Brighton and Hove City Council wants to encourage cycling (and it has just received the promise of a grant from the Department for Transport to do so), one-way streets should be made two-way so cyclists don't come into conflict with vehicles.

-Becky Reynolds, campaigns officer, www.bricycles.org.uk