What the MP should really be asking...

SIR: The Parliamentary question local MP Tim Loughton asked the Government was, when does the Government plan to announce improvements to the A27 trunk road through Worthing and Lancing?

Surely the question should have been: "Why has the Government done a U-turn on its pre-election promises to set targets which will reduce traffic to pre-1990 levels as set out in the Road Traffic Reduction Act?"

Mr Loughton has lived in the area long enough to know that a downland bypassis totally unacceptable, as was the now abandoned super-highway through Worthing.

Clearly, the existing road is under serious strain but much of this has been self-imposed by local planning decisions allowing housing estates for commuters without improving public transport.

If anyone thought that traffic on the A27 couldn't get any worse, just think what will happen if the proposed housing and industrial development in the Worthing-Lancing strategic gap gets the planners' blessing on the completion of the East Worthing Access Road.