In an article on February 6, a West Sussex County Council spokesman said: "We have a limited budget for traffic calming measures. We have to base this on statistics and there have not been enough accidents on that stretch."

Now here's a peculiar thing. Eleven people - mostly children - have been killed on the A27 at Lancing in the Boundstone School area. My grandson Scott Purdie was the eleventh victim on February 9, 1997.

If this does not qualify for remedial action, what does? Or has the spokesman not heard of this accident spot?

When the first meetings were called to discuss a footbridge, I think the estimate quoted by the council was £400,000.

That was revised in 2002 to £1.6 million and I commented to The Argus at the time that we could probably expect the final figure to be nearer £3 million.

I now understand from behind-the-scenes sources late last year that architects are vying with each other for the business and the estimated cost has risen to £3.6 million for an all-singing, all-dancing, latest technology structure where an ordinary bridge would suffice.

And still nothing is done. Yet workmen are laying kerbstones along a stretch of the Steyning to Washington road, where there are no buildings and no one walks.

I wonder how much of the required £3.6 million is being spent on this totally wasteful curbing job. Oh, and I do not know of any accidents along that stretch either, not that kerbs would stop them.

It is time the council was made accountable for its wasteful road programme.

-Bob Metson, Henfield