“Of course, if you'd had decent public transport in the first place it might never have become so bad!”

“This is just another example of ¿one rule for them and another rule for us.¿

I live in Goudhurst and intend to attend the badminton events at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. My journey would be up the A21 and I have carefully planned it already as I do not want to miss the games.

But Oh no! Having had the A21 widening scheme on the table for as long as I can remember, the cynical powers in Whitehall choose to start work on the scheme in, oh yes, you guessed it, 2012.

This will totally disrupt my plans! It gives me IBS and agitates my psoriasis.

Yet again the Government has targeted me. This is not the first time. I have proof and it has been happening since Edward Heath was PM. George Orwell? 1984? Oh yes, it is here and now in West Kent, 2009.”

“Great, so we should have a new road by about 2014...

Unfortunately this will do nothing to solve the woeful traffic situation in Tonbridge - when will the rest of the eastern relief road finally be built to take through-traffic out of the town? And why was the supermarket company who offered to build it years ago, in return for setting up shop in town and providing both a boost to retail and some competition, turned down!! We could have had the best of both worlds!”

“I won't hold my breath.

Anyone with half a brain would have waited until this was completed until the construction of the hospital and the new retail park on Longfield Road.”

“..and by the time 2012 comes round there will be another government in place who will decide the money has to be spent on something else.
I first saw plans for this dualling in 1993!!!”

“I agree entirely with the views from Michael with regard to the astonishing ineptitude of this council, look around you, roads that are now too dangerous to drive along, the old cinema complex - anybody seen any sign of the builders, Longfield Road Retail Park - now a complete no go area, constant un coordinated roadworks, even the replacement of a street lamp necessitates the waiting of months before the old ones are removed - if the private sector were allowed to work in this fashion it wouldn't last 5 minutes.”

“As usual, this is only another date on the far horizon caused by the disparate prevarification by all the 'departments' and 'quangos' trying to eke out their miserable lives and pensions in delaying this ultra-important project, for no economic reason.

I never thought I would have to say that I would be long retired before anyone lifted a finger to alleviate the disgraceful traffic situation here, but sadly; I do and I will!

This has been one of the most unenviable failures in public service I've ever seen in Kent. The weak-kneed, spineless decision making process, which started with the public officers' failures to realise - or even understand - that the retail park in Longfield should be developed and the fiasco about the hospital, and the unbelievable business case for using the existing site, showed a dismal commercial ineptitude from day one. How many councillors and their staff have ever understood business risk?

Tunbridge Wells councillors should bow their heads in shame at their total incompetence in their dealings with the bureaucratic minefield owners - i.e. the various governments we have had to endure.

The business opportunities for the immediate and outlying location, and Tunbridge Wells in particular will never be understood by the council, and this is why sad places such as Hastings will be forever blighted by decisions out of their control.

The A21 should be opened up like a huge gateway to the south, not subjected to ever-present 'report writers' and minor 'political' celebrities washed up with the mediocrity of the minority of time servers.”