New roads are safer and better for environment

MICHAEL JOB (Letters, June 15) attacks the development of a basic road system in Ireland.

He combines this attack with a moral, environmental and economic appeal for more public transport and implies that it should get priority over road-building.

In recent weeks I have travelled in excess of 3,500km on roads from Cork city to Waterford, Wexford, Dublin, Louth, Sligo, Galway, Mayo, Limerick and west Cork.