Now we’re focusing on cyclists and pedestrians – what daily dangers do you face and what changes to road and pavement layouts do you want to see? Use Street View to show us

Since launching our Google Street View sleuth project, we’ve enjoyed scrutinising all the dodgy junctions and bleak buildings that are getting your collective goat.

You’ve highlighted numerous dangerous road layouts for cyclists, pedestrians and even drivers, not to mention pointless cycle lanes and footpath failures. We had one case where a sleuth’s safety concerns over a pedestrian crossing prompted positive discussions with Hackney Cycling Campaign and a local school.

And this is only the start! Now we’d like to focus specifically on cyclists and pedestrians – what are the dangers that you face every day, and what changes to road or pavement layouts would make the biggest difference?

Wherever you are in the world, tell us in the comments section below, or by emailing cities.streetview.sleuth@guardian.co.uk (simply find the offending location on Google Street View, copy the URL and tell us what the problem is).

But before you start sleuthing, here’s a general selection of your entries so far ...



Melbourne, Australia

Reality for most of Melbourne's tram routes – local traders are still drunk on the notion that their customers must have a car park out the front of their shop. Melbourne might have the most extensive tram network in the world but it’s extremely slow (average speeds around the 15kph to 20kph range) as local clowncils are adverse to pissing off the local businesses and the current Liberal State Government overturned many of the good clearways projects implemented by the previous ALP State Government. Random examples nearer the inner-city where roads get narrower but a litany of car parking still exists: Bridge Road Richmond, Sydney Road, Brunswick, Chapel Street, South Yarra, Acland St, St. Kilda and High Street, Northcote (above).

Alastair Taylor

Congleton, UK

Your sat nav says "go right", and you think "into oncoming traffic? It’s trying to kill me!" It turns out to be a one-way stretch of road, so you really can peel off on the wrong side of the road. Scares the willies out of you if you miss it though. North America solves this problem by painting lines a different colour when they divide cars travelling in opposite directions (yellow) than cars travelling in the same direction (white). That way, the crucial distinction is never ambiguous - if it’s a white line you can cross it, if it’s yellow you can't. It’s one of only two things that North America does better than the UK in terms of road signage (the other is labelling the street names at every single intersection, meaning you don't have to play England’s “what road are we on?” guessing game. To illustrate, I went to the map of Toronto and clicked randomly on an intersection. Sure enough.

PennyForYourComment

Auckland, New Zealand

Nice little footpath through a reserve in Auckland, until you reach the end. Then where do you go? The path just ends.

Adam Vincent

Watford, UK

The most traffic lights in the whole wide world for a tiny little narrow bridge. And nearby, this:

West Watford must be the traffic light capital of the UK.

TRT1968



Note also the bike turning lane that points into oncoming traffic and a crash barrier. This sort of thing is just so crappy and needless.

nickgpw



Watford also suffers from some pretty grim and uninspiring gateways (like the brutalist offering above, or this one).

TRT1968



Bristol, UK

This is a view looking into Bedminster, Bristol, coming from the city centre which is about a kilometre behind you. You’ve just crossed the Avon (new cut) on Bedminster Bridge, a horrific roundabout plonked unceremoniously over the river which is a nightmare for cyclists and pedestrians.

This is a bit of the old road which is now a drab and not-much-used car park. But it could be so much more. With a bit of imagination and money it could be re-purposed as a green public space and a seperated bike lane that could continue into town along Redcliff Hill. Bedminster was one of the Portas Pilots, and is desperate to promote itself as somewhere people visit from across the city. Making the gateway to Bedminster less ugly, and more pedestrian- and bike-friendly would help.

Tim Weisselberg (by email)



Coventry, UK

Badly sited zebra crossing which traffic often fails to notice leading to near misses with pedestrians. Inadequate signing and far too near the junction.

ipwood



Newcastle, UK

No right-turn filter, which causes a near crash every change of lights. Makes the junction very dangerous for cyclists.

David Hardman

London, UK

The City-of-London end of ‘Cycle (so-called) Superhighway 3’. What's not imbecilic about any of it?... and then it leads into the most shockingly dangerous junctions around Tower Bridge or Aldgate that adorn the Square Mile of Death.

nickgpw



Ripon, UK

The Google map van was in Ripon several years ago, as many of the shops have changed hands, but even so, the shop front of Edinburgh Woollen Mill was tatty back then. It's been at least three years, so can you imagine what it looks like now, and how it spoils our beautiful market square?



riponjim



London, UK



There is a right-turn lane, but once you have gone past the set of lights waiting to turn you cannot see the lights any more. Your light turns red, while the traffic coming towards you is still green. Once they turn red, the pedestrians get a green light and step out in front of where you want to turn!

Andy Daniel

Watford, UK



This is one of my personal bugbears. A round blue circle with two white arrows pointing down left & down right means "Pass either side to reach same destination". In this case, they've used it to mean "Don't crash into the barrier!". The two lanes to the right go into an underpass below a major roundabout taking you along the A412 St. Alban's Road and e.g. Watford Junction. The two lanes to the left take you onto the roundabout for the A411 for Hemel Hempstead or Watford's ring road. You simply cannot reach the same destination easily if you pass either side.

The same mistake is repeated on the other approach. I've been complaining about it for 20 years, and though Herts County Council have replaced the sign twice in that time, they still insist on using this particular road sign incorrectly. And this is despite the Highways Agency issuing a Traffic Advisory Leaflet (3/13) which explains the correct and only permissible use of sign 611 (page 24).

TRT1968 (again)