Lawrence Marzouk's report about overcrowding at Brighton Station, highlighting rail bosses' fears over delays and injuries, gave much-needed publicity to this issue (The Argus, March 22).

Well done.

Four years ago, Southern Railway divided the then seamless Coastway service into two separate rail sections, West and East, because shunting frequent Coastway trains across the out-ofdate Victorian terminus station caused delays among the various new train franchise operators.

Today, West and East Coastway passengers are forced to disembark and dash across eight platforms to catch the connecting Coastway train.

This is time consuming and especially stressful for wheelchair-users.

Additionally, the downgrade of Coastway services potentially increases accidental collisions between streams of rush-hour passengers heading to and from platforms.

Now the Government is encouraging the construction of hundreds of thousands of glass and concrete, prison-style, high-rise tenement blocks all over the South Coast to cater for London's workforce, eventually trebling the population.

I'm standing back until public opinion is motivated to bring changes to southern England's Third World skeleton rail network.

  • John Stanaway, Lorna Road, Hove