Peter Elvidge wrote a good letter about our congested city (Letters, May 5). I suggest Brighton takes a leaf out of Portsmouth's book with a motorway to the heart of the city ending about half a mile from the shops. There is plenty of well-lit parking, a big welcome for drivers, no stupid, empty bus lanes, no half-baked cycle lanes, no pokey car parks and no restrictions on carrier bags.
Portsmouth's message is: come and shop in our city, come and spend your hard-earned money with us. Enjoy, the view from the Spinnaker Tower, the sea air, a good lunch while you are shopping, a super mall and competitively priced shops.
My wife and I did so at the weekend and will do so again. We returned home with a boot full of shopping bags. We don't want to shop in congested, old, run-down, filthy Brighton any more.
- Chris Rackley, Chanctonbury Road, Burgess Hill
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