Two photos of the proposed widened road around the east side of the Level (Argus October 7 and 9) show just one car there.

This is really misleading as four lanes of traffic will be thundering along this side of the Level and threatening the delicate buildings of the city’s Grand Parade.

A common mistake made by traffic engineers when they claim to be reducing the level of traffic is just to move that traffic.

It is the same mistake made by the authors of the Wilson Womsley plan for an elevated motorway dissecting North Laine, and the Breeze into Brighton scheme for channeling the traffic close to the Royal Pavilion.

The traffic engineers have found these parcels of money and then tried to think what they could do with it.

Valley Gardens could be improved by more tree planting, meandering paths and some benches. This would not cost £895,000.

Councillor Gill Mitchell is absolutely right when she says it is simply a “massive exercise to promote Valley Gardens”.

In fact it is also a massive scheme to ruin Valley Gardens and Grand Parade and provide an ego trip for traffic engineers.

Selma Montford, Hon Secretary, The Brighton Society, Brighton