LUAS project - Taxpayers face rough ride in fiasco

LUAS – lamentable, unbelievable, abysmal and shocking – an apt acronym for Dublin’s shambles of a city rail system. So appalling has the situation become that Transport Minister Seamus Brennan is openly admitting that aspects of the light rail network are a mess and a huge mistake.

If there was a prize for ineptitude Luas would win hands down. As Mr Brennan put it, if they were “starting with a clean sheet of paper and knowing today’s figures they would probably opt for a complete city-wide metro and probably do 100% of it underground”.

So snarled would be the scheme’s potential traffic fallout at the Red Cow Roundabout that the minister is considering putting parts of the railway up on stilts. It could only happen in Ireland.