Brighton and Hove City Council's traffic scheme will, if implemented, negate the council's stated aim of "getting people back to work" by giving priority access to buses and bicycles, thus strangling all access to the city for vehicles approaching Brighton via the London Road area of Patcham.

The council has provided at least ten city-centre car parks for thousands of vehicles. If the ability to park is there, motorists will use it.

The scheme will not attract one extra bus. As a result, it will be as successful as the Dyke Road cycle lane scheme and I cannot recall the last time I saw a bicycle in Dyke Road.

The scheme will force traffic away from the London Road area of Patcham, which will find its way into Westdene, Surrenden and Tivoli, making the lives of the residents a misery.

It was sponsored by the council but written by independent consultants who neither live in nor know the city and do not have to answer for the inaccuracies of their assumptions but who will be paid their fees regardless.

-D W McBeth, Tivoli Crescent North, Brighton