Does anyone ever get as frustrated as I do at being kept waiting to turn into Wilson Avenue, Brighton, on race days?

I am absolutely fed up to the teeth at waiting around (more often than not on a hot summer's day) for 20 minutes or so in a long line of traffic that goes back as far as Elm Grove.

I had been shopping at Sainsbury's and had frozen items in the boot of my car that had started to defrost by the time I got indoors.

I gave up after 20 minutes and decided to go the Manor Road way but - surprise, surprise - that was being turfed over too.

I eventually had to go down Freshfield Road to go along Eastern Road to get to Swanborough Place where my ever-patient, wonderful husband was waiting for his dinner.

My suggestion is that Brighton and Hove City Council builds either a tunnel under the race-track or a little bridge above it.

Oh, no - wait a minute, the council has no funding (except, of course, for the funds used for "traffic calming" in town). And we all know what a waste that was.

-Hannah-Carin Bauer, peej@onetel.net.uk