LETTER: Requested improvements?
Quick transport is essential for the country’s economy.
Something has to be done about the congestion while upsetting the home-owners as little as possible.
Having a flyover right through Worthing avoids encroaching on anyone’s land.
Advertisement
Hide AdAdvertisement
Hide AdIt would be much easier than now for home owners to enter or leave their properties. It would also allow the through traffic to travel at up to 60mph, dropping down to about 40mph between Lyons Farm and Hill Barn to allow for lane changing. The through road and traffic speed would then rise again after Hill Barn.
Faster moving traffic causes less air pollution.
The lower road would be less congested, reducing pollution as well.
In contrast, if the Highways England scheme is as it is described, it would have to take land from properties alongside. The Lyons Farm junction would still cause hold ups and there would still be congestion as traffic from the flyovers merged with the local traffic. It would be difficult to incorporate the Grove Lodge flyover.
The expense of that and the purchase of the extra land mean that it might be no cheaper than the full-length flyover. What a pity that we didn’t get grants for road building like other countries in the EU.
Advertisement
Hide AdAdvertisement
Hide AdIt would be interesting to know what improvements Tim Loughton and Peter Bottomley are requesting from Highways England.
Chris Gould
Georgia Avenue
Worthing
---
• Benefit from an ongoing discount on your Herald or Littlehampton Gazette by joining our voucher membership scheme. Once you’ve subscribed we’ll send you dated vouchers which can be exchanged for your paper at any news outlet. To save money on your Herald or Littlehampton Gazette simply click here.