Argus columnist Tim Ridgway is of the opinion that the i360 will, potentially, bring another 750,000 people a year into Brighton (Argus, June 8).

It was fortunate that he used the word “potentially” because, in the same edition of the paper, a headline read “Transport already at breaking point”, a comment was made by the former transport advisor for East Sussex County Council that “access into Brighton is hopeless” and Tim’s colleague Ben Leo, started his article with the words “Sussex will grind to a halt if significant transport projects worth millions of pounds are not delivered over the next decade”.

The theory behind the financing of i360 is that much of the loan of £36.2 million, taken out by the city council, will be repaid by a percentage of the ticket sales being handed over to the council.

However, if your columnist, reporter and the transport expert are correct, then the figure of 750,000 extra visitors will remain a potential number and not a fact and the council’s finances will come under considerable pressure.

This pressure, of course, will also apply to the developers who are assuming that people will flood into the city to use their attractions.

What if they don’t because the transport situation actually does “reach the breaking point”, if access remains “hopeless” and if the county “grinds to a halt”?

What if the revenue then falls far below the expectations of the developers and the whole project becomes financially unviable and they pull out? How then will the loan be repaid?

Any answers Brighton and Hove City Council?

Eric Waters, Ingleside Crescent, Lancing