Commuters can only stand and stare as trains head further down the line

IARNRÓD Éireann’s corporate communications manager Barry Kenny, in his lambasting of economist Dr Seán Barrett (Irish Examiner letters, January 1), writes that “this country still suffers from an infrastructural deficit”, and by this he meant rail and bus infrastructure. I agree.

However, all the brouhaha about Transport 21 is little consolation to those who live near Leixlip (two stations), Clonsilla, Coolmine, Castleknock, Ashtown, Broombridge and Drumcondra up to 10 miles west of Dublin.

They watch 80 commuter trains a week pass without stopping so that those who live in Maynooth (16 miles west), and sometimes beyond, can save a total journey time of eight minutes.