Why are planners obsessed with replacing long-established treasures by ultra-modern proposals?

Those who want to push the bullet train plan have not realised that a perfectly good electric railway exists precisely on the route they want to run it.

Do they seriously believe that the large numbers of passengers will miraculously turn up day after day, year after year, to ride the bullet as an innovation just along one mile of coastline?

There were plans to refurbish Volk's Railway and extend it from the Marina to the Pier, except it only runs in the summer season and does not appear to carry so many passengers.

If anything, a train should be extended along a larger route and replace buses, to be of any good to the city.

I found papers in the planning office which explained there were large sewers close to the surface which would hamper the efforts of routing any tunnels, which would need to be laid at a greater depth to overcome the problems.

How about making it easier for visitors and their cars to start with? You know they won't go away.

-David Shelton, Worthing