The recent gridlock along the A259 due to roadworks at Saltdean has highlighted just how vital this road is to normal vehicular traffic.

The road congestion scheme (only politicians call them "improvements") to provide priority lanes to buses is ill conceived.

I understand that the intention is to encourage us to use buses more. However, the routes that serve this corridor (the 12, 14 and 27) are already full in the peak times of 7am-9am and 4pm-6pm, indeed the eastwards routes in the summer are often already full by the Aquarium.

Few drivers will forsake their car to stand on a bus for half an hour, and even fewer when they've stood at a bus stop and watched two or three buses pass without stopping because they are full.

I know these roadworks were approved by the previous politically correct Labour council, but if the intent is to improve the environment then councillors ought to be told that stationary cars are far more polluting than moving cars, and very few will be coerced on to the already full buses.

  • Peter Usher, Bishopstone Drive Brighton