Does every member of Brighton and Hove City Council live in Hove Park, Roedean, Kemp Town or adjacent to the seafront?

Are any of them aware of the existence and the importance of Olive Road as a means of accessing anything south of Old Shoreham Road from anywhere north of Old Shoreham Road?

Several half-hearted and halfbaked schemes have been applied here, but only as experiments.

All that needs to be done is to reduce the pavement area on the east side of the junction with Portland Road, to allow traffic to filter left and not have to wait for those waiting to turn right (mostly traffic that has chosen Olive Road so as to avoid the usual hold-up caused by the level crossing in Boundary Road).

The token second lane markings at the junction with Portland Road are inadequate.

This is purely a matter of common sense which should have been obvious, even to those responsible for traffic flow in the city.

  • David Sheppard, Stapley Road, Hove