What utter nonsense Felicity Tanous talks (Letters, April 12).
By claiming the construction of a Hastings/Bexhill relief road or even a full-blown bypass would create more pollution from traffic exhaust fumes and thereby contribute to the destruction of the Greenland ice sheet, with all that entails, she betrays a dangerous naivety.
She claims traffic expands to fill a space and she's absolutely right - this is the traffic that currently crawls through Hastings and St Leonards at a snail's pace - when it's not at a complete standstill - belching out noxious fumes for all the residents and pedestrians to inhale.
Were such traffic to be diverted, the environment for the residents would be much improved (and humans have as much right to a decent environment as all other life forms) with the added advantage that far less fumes would be generated from vehicles travelling in top gear.
What will Felicity and her "Green" chums find to carp about when cars are eventually produced which run on water, their waste product being steam? I bet they'll run out of steam.
-Nigel Furness, Hove
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