The piece in the comment column, entitled Flood Town In Need of Help (The Argus, October 14) rightly laments the Government's failure to fund improved flood defences for Lewes and points the finger of blame for the flooding at "dumb planning and the curse of concrete car parks."

Underneath, a second piece, Driving Dilemma, on Brighton's park-and-ride plans, describes its parking space for 900 cars as "inevitable."

Leaving aside the contradiction between both comments, there is nothing inevitable about park-and-ride except its destructive impact on the environment and its effect of encouraging more people to drive here.

The scheme requires planning permission - "inevitable" it isn't.

The chair of the integrated transport commission, professor David Begg, has said: "At some point, people are going to have to realise there is a finite limit to the number of cars any city can accommodate."

He did not say: "We will have to push all the cars to the edge of the city and bus the passengers in."

We need effective measures to ensure that, as some people leave their cars behind, more cars do not rush in to fill the available space.

The "carrot" of better public transport does not work without the "stick" of restricting parking. Any planner or politician who says otherwise is not telling the truth.

Streets are a space for us all. We need to return them to their original purpose - a resource we are all entitled to use.

-Stephen Young, www.livingstreets.org.uk