This column is supposed to be about cycling. Well, today it's about pedestrians - just don't anyone tell the editor!

We're all pedestrians - whether we are just walking or wheeling (if you have a wheelchair) to the shops, getting out of your car or off the bus, or, like me, you leave the bike somewhere and go off for a wander round town. As I've mentioned before, I'm hugely pregnant and so I'm finding my bike difficult to part with because walking is a bit of a struggle, but there are places it's just a pain to cycle.

In the city centre, there are places where there are accidents waiting to happen. I mention again the lights at the corner of George Street, Cornmarket and Magdalen Street. The suggestion of a raised walkway, with priority for pedestrians, is the fairest option - it's already slow there for buses, and cyclists usually have some pedestrians jumping out on them, so giving pedestrians priority means that there would be a slower, but better and safer flow of traffic.

Writing this bike column has been a bit of a poison chalice for me - people I know ask me to mention stuff in the column that bugs them. One that comes up often is the cycle lane in the middle of the pavement opposite the Regal in Cowley Road.

This is a bit stupid, as the cycle lane crosses one of the main bus stops in that area. So while people are gently lowering their pushchairs or easing themselves with walking sticks off the bus, some cyclists will be travelling kamikaze-style down the pavement on their racers, and collisions are inevitable. Why not have the bike lane continuing on the road like it does for the rest of Cowley Road?

As for cycling on pavements, I've seen many kids doing this, probably because their parents don't want to have to worry about them being hit by cars.

I heard someone say that bike wheels under a certain diameter are legally allowed on the pavement. This isn't true, although I think nippers learning to ride their bikes are better off on the pavement - as long as they pull in for pedestrians, rather than try to treat them like ramps.

My personal worst thing about being a pedestrian, apart from having to cross dodgy roads with no crossings, is when cars park on the pavement.

Parking across Oxford is crazy. People argue that they need to leave room for fire engines, but they also need to make sure my mates with pushchairs or in wheelchairs are not squeezed out on to the roads to face speeding boy racers or private taxis. Pavements are for people, not for stationary vehicles, and if there is insufficient room, then drivers should find somewhere else to park.

One last point is who designed pelican crossings? (It's a rhetorical question, so don't write in.) Why is it that when the green person is flashing for the pedestrian (so you can still cross), the lights have gone orange for the driver - meaning they start to set off?

Can't they give a little more time and change orange once the red person is showing? Anyhow, give pedestrians a break - you don't see them giving you road rage.