In an article headed ‘Shoreham is on the move again’ (April 8), Adam Trimingham was quoted as saying that the A259 was congested all day long in the high street and that no progress had been made in solving this problem for 40 years. Clearly ‘not on the move again’ as the headline suggested.

In my view, the answer is quite simple: take out two of the bus stops. At present, this quite short street has stops at both ends in both directions and this overprovision is what causes so many of the traffic hold ups.

The problem is compounded when there are two buses at the same stop at the same time with the rear one completely blocking the road. Furthermore, terminating the Number 2 in the high street, where it sits empty for some time, does not help either. Perhaps just two stops, each capable of holding two buses, would be a step in the right direction?

Reading on into the article it would appear that the traffic in the high street is destined to get significantly worse than it is today as Adam mentioned proposed developments on the old postal site south of the A259, the northern part of Ropetackle and the £60 million scheme for the old Adur Civic Centre. Unless, of course, everyone living and working at these places is forced to leave their cars at home and find alternative forms of travel.

Adam also wrote about the “grotty little footbridge” that had been replaced with the impressive Adur Ferry Bridge. He was quite right, of course, so it left me wondering why the photograph accompanying his article pictured the grotty little one?

Eric Waters

Ingleside Crescent, Lancing