A number of correspondents have recently advocated the return of trams to the streets of Brighton.

Now a group called the Campaign for a Better Brighton and Hove, having been impressed by the Croydon system, has jumped on the bandwagon.

A similar system to Croydon's (which is really a light railway) would not work in Brighton.

Most of the Croydon Tramlink runs over former railway lines. In the centre of Croydon where it runs along the road, there have been several collisions involving motor vehicles and a fatal accident involving a pedestrian.

In the Brighton area there is little disused railway land and a lot of narrow and congested roadway, so where would you put the track?

The only practical answer is either underground or overhead. I cannot see either Brighton and Hove Council or the Government paying for this.

There are good environmental reasons for running electric vehicles and in my opinion we should bring back trolleybuses. The closure of the Brighton system was largely political and not due to cost or inflexibility.

-Peter E. Bailey, Beaconsfield Villas, Brighton