What a muddled bunch of policies now incorporated in the name of climate change or congestion (The Argus, April 7). Does the bus stop in Whitehawk Road opposite the bus station help? Yes, undoubtedly it helps create congestion.

With that bus stop built out artificially into the road taking effectively another lane, it means when a bus pulls up it reduces the two lanes available to one-way traffic or, to put it another way, deliberately creates congestion.

How ironic then that Brighton and Hove Bus and Coach Company boss Roger French is the first to suggest buses as the panacea for avoiding congestion.

We have bus-only lanes, being used partially, again reducing the lanes to remove congestion. Monty Python couldn't have come up with better policies.

Like London, a concerted effort in the name of climate change is used as an excuse to raise taxes and make the roads ever more gridlocked.

Ironic, that the UK seems to have epidemics of indirect tax raising schemes, like fines for parking, speeding, congestion and driving on the bus lane. The most serious aspect is it's often perpetrated by politicians happy to ride gas guzzlers in their private lives. The very real problem of climate change tarnished by the actions of those who only see it as the next meal ticket but are quite happy to close their eyes to the same argument if it comes to an incinerator on the doorstep.

  • John Stevens, Roman Crescent, Southwick