You take that back, you scoundrel, bounder and cad.
Hampshire's Portsmouth is the small price we have to pay for being perfect.
How do you explain East Sussex's Eastbourne?
Littlehampton is getting some cosmetic touches due to the 2 new towns being built around it:-
https://www.westsussex.gov.uk/news/a259-improvements-scheme-one-step-closer/
The estimated cost of these are currently, at most, £24,000,000.
You're more than welcome to the cash being spent on this white elephant:-
A259 Bognor Regis to Littlehampton Pedestrian and Cycle Route
https://haveyoursay.westsussex.gov.uk/highways-and-transport/ncn2
Unless yet another new town (which will be the areas 4th (FOURTH) is being built between...
and how many years ago was that?
With the exception of Goring Castle through to Poling, West Lancing to Arundel is an abomination of a road.
All points either side would probably be seen exactly the same way, were it not being raised by the embarrassment of that 10 - 15 mile stretch.