With regard to Peter Usher’s opinions about the substantial changes required to the A259 (Letters, December 1), while I agree with his comments there is another issue and change that East Sussex County Council needs to address, hopefully before the election in May 2009.

The issue is the waste of public money this disastrous scheme has caused and the additional expenditure of taxpayers’ money required to rectify the resulting traffic chaos.

The change is the removal from their post of the person or persons responsible for this travesty. An inaccurate version of the scheme was presented for public consultation in 2004. The scheme presented showed the road being widened. The scheme was built, however, squeezed into the existing carriageway.

The reasons given by Matthew Lock (theargus.co.uk, August 15) were the cost of widening the road and the intrusion into a site of special scientific interest. I would argue these are both fundamental stumbling blocks.

I would contend that if the actual scheme had been presented it would not have been given public approval.

I suggest that all groups – bus users, cyclists, motorcyclists and motorists would have had serious misgivings.

Matthew Lock as a cabinet member for transport must take responsibility for this.

As a way forward I suggest readers email their local councillor suggesting that county councillors press for an inquiry and Brighton and Hove city councillors press the county council for answers and remedies.

Peter Brown, Downland Avenue, Peacehaven