THE most difficult road problem in Sussex is what to do with the A27 in Worthing. The last Government avoided tackling it but it simply will not go away.
If you build a bypass around Worthing, it goes through some of the finest downland in Britain. If you widen the existing road, you demolish houses and bring traffic noise closer to people's homes. If you do nothing, congestion grows on a road which is part of the main east-west trunk route in Sussex. The solution may be to build a new road with more extensive tunnels than have been seen on any highway in Sussex so far, possibly with tolls to recoup some of the cost. This would provide a through route for people who want to bypass the town while sparing homes and the countryside. It might also encourage a few drivers to try the underused but handy Coastway West railway line as an alternative.
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