Bypass off-route

I must agree with his logic and comments, but would add a few of my own.

I live next to the A259, opposite Haskins (now there’s a blot on the landscape) and see the results of bad planning. Would someone please explain to me how a ‘bypass’ can run north/south up the east side of a village and can only be accessed from the west by traffic going through the village?

The amount of traffic that uses this ‘bypass’ is negligible. All it does is divert traffic onto the A27, where it doesn’t want to go. A real bypass would have had access on the west side as well as the east, so that traffic could go round the village instead of through it.

To suggest that making the stretch of A259 between Station Road and the ‘bypass’ dual carriageway would have helped the burst water main hold-ups, is a travesty, as the ‘bypass’ is single carriageway, so it would have been two lanes into one, rather that one to one. I had cause to use the diversion three times during the road closure and had no difficulty on any occasion, as drivers were behaving sensibly.

Malcolm Simpson

Hailsham Close

East Preston