Car campaigner Peter Sayers moans that driving between east Brighton and Hove is like Hampton Court Maze (The Argus, September 3).

What does he expect in a dense urban environment such as Brighton and Hove?

Why does he feel it necessary to travel by private car at all when we are served by a generally good city bus network, a strategically important rail network and a 24-hour taxi service?

While there will always be a need for some urban private car travel, the "I'll drive my car anywhere I like, whatever the social cost" mentality of the pro-car lobby is the last thing the city needs.

My constituents in St Peters & North Laine, half of whom forgo owning a car, have to endure daily the pollution from cars like Mr Sayer's.

I represent an area where emergency air quality management zones are soon to be implemented because of traffic-induced pollution.

Official figures suggest as many as 24,000 people in Britain die prematurely because of traffic fumes.

This works out at about 100 people a year in our city, many dying from conditions such as lung inflammation and coronary heart disease.

When will the "cars-at-any-price" lobbyists accept that there are less harmful ways to travel than by car?

Greens will continue to campaign to reclaim city centres for the people who live, visit and work there against the excesses of the car culture.

-Councillor Simon Williams, Green Party parliamentary candidate, Brighton Kemp town constituency