Voice of The Argus (November 24) about the chaotic and hopeless roadworks at Elm Grove, Brighton, was quite right to point out the contrasting speed with which Kings Road was resurfaced earlier this year.
This is the old story of the public front of the city being favoured over the areas where local people live and work. Brighton and Hove City Council ignores these at its peril, as it may well find out in next spring's elections.
I have walked daily through the "improvements" at Elm Grove, Lewes Road and the Level. They are being done in such a cack-handed manner it has become almost comedy, a sort of "Carry On Digging".
I would be unsurprised to see Charles Hawtrey at the wheel of a JCB or Kenneth Williams peering into a manhole.
It would remain comic were it not that the small businesses of Lewes Road have been badly damaged by the months of upheaval, as a news story showed.
They deserve compensation and we should also expect a public apology from the council for what has been happening at Elm Grove this year.
-David Gray, Roundhill Crescent, Brighton
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