Mrs E Young (Letters, March 13) states that the park-and-ride scheme proposed for the top of Carden Avenue, Brighton, would block her routes out of Patcham.

She goes on to explain in detail those available to her.

I wonder why she goes such a long way round to get to Brighton or Hove if she is in Ladies Mile Road?

Why does she need to go through Hollingbury to get to Brighton? Surely Warmdene Road, Braybon Avenue, then down Surrenden Road and on to London Road, bypassing Withdean altogether, is a much quicker route?

To get to Hove, why not go through Vale Avenue and on to the A23 and A27? If she needs to get on to Ditchling Road, this is possible via Surrenden Road. There is no need to go up Carden Avenue.

The only extra traffic would be the cars using the park-and-ride and as this would help to keep traffic off London Road and Carden Avenue I would have thought that it was a good thing.

As for people arriving hours before an Albion game and taking hours to go home, I go to the matches every home game. I am dropped off at the bottom of Carden Avenue and collected from the same place.

I leave Lewes at 2.15pm, arrive at the ground at 2.30pm and am home by 6.15pm. I don't take hours and I know of no one who does.

I have lived in Brighton and Lewes all my life and I have never known the London Road to be anything other than congested at any time of day long before the football club was there.

Common sense must surely prevail. If you know a certain route to be congested at a certain time, surely you simply do not use it.

The same goes for all the people who object to a stadium at Falmer. I wonder how many of them go to matches? Perhaps something else could be planned for this site.

The incinerator could go there, for instance, if the Albion fail in their bid for a stadium. I would much rather a stadium that everyone could use than a retail park or an incinerator.

-A Symes, The Lynchets, Lewes