I have just read today's front page story of The Argus (June 20).

Does the leader of Brighton and Hove City Council Ken Bodfish live in "cloud cuckoo land" when he says "this is one of the reasons we need park-and-ride".

Several thousand cars were queueing to get into Brighton yesterday and even if park-and-ride had existed, it would never have coped.

It would have required parking spaces for a minimum of 3,000 cars and the infrustructure to move over 4,000 people, plus luggage, in a period of three hours to a location near the beach and then move them back to the parking areas later that day.

Would a family who travelled to Brighton to sit on the beach with blankets and picnic hampers park outside the town, wait for a bus and then carry it all from the bus stop to the beach and then do the same later that day? I think not.

I truly believe it is Brighton's transport policy or lack of it which has caused these problems and they will only get worse if the fine weather continues.

Brighton is a holiday/seaside resort and we do everything to discourage visitors.

The road systems are a shambles. We should have one way in to Brighton via London Road and one way out via Dyke Road and then either free or reduced parking costs in Brighton all day Sunday.

The other alternative is to make Braypool a huge park-and-ride area, build a train station opposite, linked by an underpass, to take people directly in to Brighton Station. All travel should be free with trains every 15 minutes.

It will not happen. All we will get are more traffic wardens, bigger parking fees, more one-way systems and longer waits at traffic lights - then we will complain that visitors are staying away from Brighton.

If I did not live in Brighton, I would never visit it during the summer period - I don't want to be stuck in a traffic jam for three hours.

-Paul Mitchell, Brighton