Airport metro - Cullen claims invite public scepticism

FIFTEEN stops in seventeen minutes between Stephen’s Green and Dublin Airport?

The imagination boggled at Transport Minister Martin Cullen’s supreme confidence yesterday as he unveiled the route of Dublin’s proposed metro system. However, the long suffering travelling public is unlikely to share his confidence in this ambitious timetable.

Passengers, embarking and disembarking, will need split-second timing on the 17-kilometres route between the city centre and the airport, embracing a generous slice of Taoiseach Bertie Ahern’s northside constituency on the way.