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The buses going into Brighton from the two universities on Lewes Road are incredibly busy. I've regularly found that the high-capacity bendi-buses are full when they reach the Mithras House bus stop, travelling south, at that time. And that's with buses running every two minutes.

The stadium wasn't the reason that the Lewes Road scheme got government funding - although the scheme undoubtedly benefits supporters by speeding up the Mithras House park & ride service (as well as benefiting fans who cycle to games). And I'm certain that no-one will advocate funding the...

It's obviously impossible to apportion blame for a double near-miss like this but my first stab would be to question why the pedestrian wasn't looking out for turning traffic and, second stab, to ask why you seem to have turned left across a cycle lane, without giving way to the cyclist who was...

Interestingly, one of the effects of the congestion charge in central London is to make the area more attractive for tourists.

Bus company thinking always focuses on reliability and frequency of service as being more important to passengers than fares. Non-passengers tend to be more interested in fares. As long as passenger numbers continue to rise (and that is still the case in Brighton and Hove), the bus company...

I remember once having a conversation with a couple of councillors from Hartlepool about measures to tackle traffic congestion. All they would say was that the recession was affecting their local economy so much that they would have given their eye-teeth for Hartlepool town centre to see some...

Eh? Driving back home from the RSCH towards Lewes this afternoon (4.00pm), via Ovingdean and Falmer Road, I discovered that the queue at the Woodingdean crossroads amounted to ... THREE cars. Last Friday, it was FIVE cars. At that time, Warren Road is always busy as the result of traffic...

It's quite simple, as these diagrams illustrate. The fundamental diagram of traffic flow is a diagram that gives a relation between the traffic flux (vehicles/hour) and the traffic density (vehicles/km). A macroscopic traffic model involving traffic flux, traffic density and velocity forms...

If the number of empty shops is a measure of the economic vibrancy (or otherwise) of town centres, it's interesting that Brighton has only 6 per cent of city centre shops standing empty, compared with a national average of 14 per cent and Worthing with 8.9 per cent...

For many of my journeys into Brighton (and all of my journeys to London), I choose to use the public transport alternatives that are available to me - mainly on the grounds of convenience (first) and cost (second). And that's from someone who lives surrounded by open fields and two miles from...

And, as well as using buses when I can (this morning, for example), I regularly drive along Lewes Road (several times a week, as it happens, including a planned journey this coming evening).

I'm not arguing against car drivers being provided with a reasonable share of the nation's transport resources. It's the expectation that some people have that, in Brighton, this should be funded by Brighton & Hove council tax payers. Like a large proportion of users of Lewes Road, I pay my...

And - apart from the fact that you think delivering a benefit to car drivers will personally benefit you - what exactly is the case for council tax payers helping out motorists?

Improvements that I've noticed and that have benefited me:- As a regular bus user, it certainly speeds up my travel times. There are more bus shelters, with better seats and better bus information. As an operator of minibuses that can use the bus lanes, the scheme has improved our journey...

Indeed it does. But try crossing the road safely and you'll realise how vital traffic lights can be, especially if you are old and slow, or a young child.

Viaduct Road and Upper Lewes Road - to provide a link from Preston Circus to the Vogue Gyratory, and an alternative (possibly safer) route between the Level and the Vogue Gyratory.

And pedestrians always wait for the red man to turn green?

http://road.cc/content/news/90436-cambridge-approves-uks-first-cycle-only-green-lights-notorious-blackspot-junction Cambridge approves UK's first cycle-only green lights at notorious blackspot junction New signals will give bikes a five-second headstart over other traffic by Sarah Barth...

Given the fact that the number of parking spaces at Withdean was limited by the size of the site, the decision not to run services into the evening was a deliberate decision, designed to ensure that demand for car parking spaces (particularly on Saturdays) didn't exceed the supply. In many...

Oi! That's not true. The use of Withdean P&R increased exponentially from the day it was introduced. A few years into the scheme, we had to provide more car parking capacity, by demolishing the old tennis centre and paving over the field at the north end of the site. The scheme was doing...