Sighing at signs

Before we moved to Rustington last year, we had moved to Lancing from the East Midlands after we both had retired some ten years ago, and soon discovered that the only place with a sandy beach was Littlehampton, with its East Beach.

And so we came, especially when the grandchildren were visiting us, struggling to find the route and avoid the actual town centre with its narrow, windy streets and pedestrians.

We now have got used to driving direct to the beach, but I really do wonder for newcomer tourists.

Whether you are coming on the A284, down from the Arundel direction, or east from Worthing, there are NO helpful (brown) signposts pointing the way to ‘The beach’ or ‘Seafront parking’.

There are plenty of signs to ‘Council offices’, but that surely is not what tourists want. What is the point of ‘Sussex-by-the-Sea’ signs on lampposts on the Littlehampton A259 by-pass? At whom are they directed?

Is there really no money in the kitty to have tourism signs for tourists erected on all approach roads in time for next summer’s season?

Colin Maroney

Highfield Gardens

Rustington