The cuckoos have come home to roost in Cloud-Cuckoo-Land!

To add to Norman Baker MP's ridiculous defence of the A27 remaining a single-carriageway road between Polegate and Lewes, the Government is now agreeing to the cheapest solution to the bottleneck at Beddingham level crossing by supporting a single carriageway flyover.

The Committee of Seaford Residents' Association has come out strongly in favour of the dual-carriageway option, as long as it is not an isolated event but forms part of integrated transport improvement.

The association has impeccable credentials in the field of transport. It has long campaigned to keep Seaford on the railway network.

It supports the all-year ferry link from Newhaven to Dieppe, not just profit-making summer services.

It has highlighted the lack of both evening buses to Eastbourne and a frequent service to Eastbourne hospital.

It has suggested solutions to the bottleneck at Exceat Bridge on the A259 and deplored the heavy lorry traffic through Seaford.

It has opposed half-baked cycling schemes which have encouraged riders on to the A259 and did not provide adequate safe routes to schools.

To this end, it supports a safe and sensible dual carriageway link from Polegate to Lewes as part of the Honiton-to-Folkestone trunk route. That also needs a dual carriageway flyover at Beddingham and a well-planned interchange with the A26.

It would be nice to see public transport contributing to the solution of local problems but an alternative Seaford to Victoria rail link via Uckfield or a means of persuading Brighton buses to run their popular daytime service to Eastbourne into the evening both seem a long way off.

-Peter White, Seaford