Road AND rail needed
I AM afraid that Richard Tyler and Derrick Coffee (Letters, January 27) each substantially miss the point in regard to both public transport and regeneration, by framing these as an either/or scenario. This area is crying out for both rail AND road improvements, while regeneration must strike a balance between town centre redevelopment and new light industrial and residential development on the outskirts. For the area to have an integrated public transport system, this means an expanded and frequent bus network across both Hastings and Bexhill to augment the limited rail network.
This would only be effective were the Bexhill - Hastings Link Road to be built. The current Glyne Gap/Bexhill Road bottleneck precludes a viable bus network, both in terms of congestion and circuitous routes. Other Utopian ideas simply won’t work if public transport is too slow or doesn’t run where people need to go. Likewise, unless we take an integrated approach to new development in North Bexhill and along the BHLR and Queensway litoral, we will simply see more applications for ad hoc development similar to that proposed on Barnhorn Road. In other instances both business and customers will not necessarily choose instead go to town centres in Bexhill and Hastings, they will simply go elsewhere.
RICHARD MADGE
College Road
Bexhill-on-Sea
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