Road to ruin

‘Those trapped in cars in sweltering heat for a couple of hours or more’ – shocking, except for the fact that all modern cars have air conditioning, so nobody ‘swelters’ in them, and even older vehicles have windows you can open.

Angmering did indeed have gridlock for a while, its ridiculous ‘pinch points’ adding to the fun, nicely.

This minor incident would have caused a lot of trouble whatever the state of the A259, but I am convinced that the Gazette group of papers has shares in construction companies, because yet again it is used to boost the road-building lobby with calls for ‘improvements’ guaranteed to dump more concrete on green fields.

Angmering Parish Coucil chairman Steve Mountain says that the road infrastructure is at a critical point – I do not see it at all, and I drive around the area all the time.

There is just far too much traffic all the time, and a start could be made by forbidding all parents from driving their kids to school – they should be made to walk or get the bus, do them good and stop them getting fatter, too.

Most people who live in this beautiful part of the world do so because of the (mostly) unspoilt countryside, not because of its road connections, which of course, break down when there is a major flood, and a large number of us want no more ‘roadbuilding’ – at all.

Richard Foster

Beech View

Angmering

n Editor’s note: the improvements to the A259 suggested in the consultants’ report to the county council would use only land already reserved for widening purposes alongside the existing road and would not take up any green fields.

What do readers think of the road widening plans? Would they actually solve the traffic build-ups we frequently see, or are there other, and better ways to reduce cars on the road, as Mr Foster suggests?