While I am sure that most users will welcome the upgrading of Brighton Station, in particular the opening up of the concourse, in one respect it might seem that the planners have missed – with the much-needed installation of a longer bank of ticket barriers – the opportunity to remove the safety issues of the former arrangement.

Passengers alighting from west coastway trains on platforms 1, 2 and 3, together with those alighting from platforms 4 and 5, had to negotiate the cross-flows of passengers both entering the platform concourse and those exiting from platforms 6, 7 and 8 to access the exit barriers at the far east end of the former bank.

Why, then, has this potentially dangerous situation been perpetuated with the positioning of all the entry barriers at the western end and the exit barriers at the eastern end? It would make more sense and reduce passenger flow conflicts to have a bank of both exit and entry barriers at both ends of the concourse.

Stuart Elms, Rackham Road, Worthing