Better to drive through than wait in traffic queue

I WOULD like to reply to Esmond Newman's letter "Builders and roadworks leave neighbours in state of despair" (Gazette, July 1).

I sympathise with Mr Newman's concerns and I am sure he is right on each count he writes about, as he is directly affected. However, I use the Toddington estate and Holmes Lane as a short cut to the amenity tip, which Mr Newman objects to.

Traffic on the A259, especially in the mornings, is phenomenal. It is better to drive through the Toddington estate than to follow traffic nose-to-tail all the way to the Wick roundabout, then over the railway crossing on the Arundel road, and so to Mill Lane and the amenity tip.

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There are long traffic jams each way when the railway barriers are down.

And now we are promised hundreds of new homes north of the railway crossing, stretching well into Lyminster. Will this route be made easier when this occurs? Although I understand there will be a new bypass, and we are promised infrastructure – what infrastructure?

Infrastructure was promised for the Beaumont estate when that was built, and also for the Toddington estate, but never materialised.

I shudder to think what it will be like driving to the amenity tip from The Body Shop roundabout when all the plans for housing, etc., are realised.

G. A. Harris

Armada Way, Littlehampton

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