Congratulations to Brighton and Hove City Council for installing the new bus stop buildouts in Ditchling Road.

The camber is quite steep outside St Matthias's Church, so it used to be really difficult getting on and off the bus there.

Now, when the bus stops, you can simply step between surfaces which can be the same height and nearly perfectly level.

And motorists benefit too.

Where the original bus stop bays had to be long enough for the bus to pull in and out, the new buildouts are shorter than the buses, thus providing at least two more parking spaces either side.

There are always teething problems. The raised kerb on the north-facing stop at Fiveways was put in back-to-front, leaving passengers facing a telegraph pole on leaving the bus. It was remedied a few days later. But one new kerb appears rather dangerous.

Travelling north up Ditchling Road, it is on the left, just past the filling station. There is no room for parked cars but this raised kerb nevertheless projects beyond the original kerbline into the road about two feet.

It seems only a matter of time before it causes a major accident.

into the traffic flow.

-Evelyn Lewes, Hythe Road, Brighton