Insulting tosh

In one letter about the A27 (Gazette, March 26), Derek Waller manages to repeat misinformed tosh and insult a good number of his Arundel neighbours.

Labelling local people who oppose ineffectual, highly damaging and bad value road plans as ‘anti-road’ lacks imagination. Describing them as ‘having their strings pulled’, because they listen to a national transport organisation engaged in the Department for Transport (DfT) study group, is plain rude.

Mr Waller has no idea whether people in Arundel who oppose the A27 plans are a minority, because we haven’t been consulted on the road in over a generation. Nobody knows – though we are aware that they can at least be counted in hundreds, going by the response to Arundel SCATE’s publicity.

There has been no platform to voice opposition to local authority assertions and, it was thought, no need for one, as bypass plans were firmly rejected by government in 2003 on cost and environmental grounds.