Roads for future

I believe the experts’ conclusion has been based more on the future infrastructure needs than the present circumstances, as witnessed by Mr Foster’s observations. However, recent events prove only a fine margin of capacity to be available within the existing situation.

From current evidence, and as Mr Foster admits by his personal preference for his private transport, most people rely on the convenience of their motor vehicle for the varied aspects of their activity. Forbidding the community its use of the car or imposing a congestion penalty is hardly a practical suggestion.

The Littlehampton Neighbourhood Plan has observed a 25 per cent rise in the population of the town alone can be expected in that period, and much of its visitor attraction causes surges in vehicular traffic. With such a varied trip rate account it is difficult to establish any significant group movement with a practical alternative mode of travel.

It is, of course, the strategic building plans which give rise to the loss of the green fields, not the improvements in road links of which Mr Foster so far disapproves. However, it is not usual for the width space in the road network to be a problem. Serious delays are inevitable where their junctions are overloaded, and this, perhaps by a bypass provision, is an area for more serious research.

Derek Hulmes, Littlehampton town councillor for Brookfield ward

Kingfisher Drive

Wick