So Brighton and Hove City Council wants to spend £750,000 improving the Vogue Gyratory in Lewes Road (The Argus, April 23).

To quote the article, it is “hoping” the work will reduce the number of cars using the roundabout and it is “hoping” pedestrian and cycle safety will be improved.

In other words, after years of consultation, and at a cost of three quarters of a million pounds, it is still not sure it has come up with the right answer and is obviously “hoping for the best” and “hoping” that the money will not be wasted.

I would like to suggest an alternative approach to this problem that involves no “hoping” at all: simply demolish the BP service station (which is probably the only one in the country located in the middle of a roundabout) along with the other buildings on this site and have a straight-through Lewes Road.

And by the way, what on earth is the “floating bus stop” the council intends to install outside Sainsbury’s?

Eric Waters, Ingleside Crescent, Lancing