Many thanks for airing the subject of park and ride recently.

In survey after survey by the Economic Partnership, the city's employers have listed the vexed subject of transport as their biggest issue and the vast majority of people are in favour of park and ride.

We know the economy of Brighton and Hove relies on the easy ability of people (both tourists and residents) to get into the city and move freely around it.

The reduction of congestion is the number one priority.

Conservatives (Letters, July 5) talk about "anti-car policies",environmentalists such as Mr Todd accuse those of us trying to resolve this issue of "a lack of imagination" and the rest of us are stuck in the traffic, caught in the crossfire of a war of words.

The solution must be compromise. People must think before they drive into town. You can't moan about traffic jams if you cause a traffic jam.

People who want to protect the environment have to accept that to take cars out of the city and reduce pollution and road deaths, we need to take a tiny part of the south Downs for a park and ride on the only obviously effective site, the junction of the A27 and A23 at Braypool.

Businesses have to accept many of us change our habits reluctantly. So we must look at Ken Livingstone's London experiment and ask how, while protecting our economy in Brighton, we can reduce the amount of traffic in the city centre. The Economic Partnership has recently produced travel plans with major employers covering some 60 per cent of the workforce which would achieve a reduction in congestion.

So, please, let's stop the war of words and make some sensible compromises to provide a park and ride, reduce congestion and increase public transport provision still further. We need solutions, not point scoring.

Simon Fanshawe

-Chairman, Brighton and Hove Economic Partnership