"Plans to heap nearly five million tons of London's rubbish into Sussex could lead to the nightmare scenario of roads jammed with garbage lorries and more tips and incinerators (The Argus, May 12).
Before unification with Brighton, Hove's local authority suggested its town transport plan include transfer of domestic waste from road to rail through Hove Station goods yard (now an Electrostar train depot).
Sussex roads are, of course, already jammed with thousands of post lorries while hundreds of Royal Mail carriages rust in sidings.
Dr Beeching's cuts in the early Sixties left Sussex with a totally disjointed and inadequate skeleton of a rail service. Perhaps to reduce the problem of slow and overcrowded train journeys, the Ministry of Transport could suggest fitting lorry tyres to train wheels to enable trains to run on motorways.
This would prove to voters there is no congestion on the roads and the Ministry of Transport is not as maladministered as the Home Office.
-John Stanaway, Coastway Division, Railfuture, Lorna Road, Hove
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