Lack of foresight then and so it is now
Our Minister for Transport, Seamus Brennan, had to admit that the Luas project was an unmitigated disaster.
It was obviously ill-conceived and, as usual in this country, “blank chequed” by our profligate Government. It is yet another costly fiasco for the hard-pressed taxpayer.
We have learned nothing in the past forty years. My late father retired in 1960 and went to live in Dundrum, Dublin, from his native Kerry. While on holiday in 1962, my father and I went to the local for a drink. He informed me that the Harcourt Street to Bray railway line was being dismantled. He then said, “this is a very retrograde step as it will be badly needed in the future”.
He also decried the demolition of the magnificent stone bridges.
When I hear of the traffic chaos in Dublin I smile and think of that day four decades ago when a simple countryman showed more foresight than our overpaid gurus and bureaucrats.
Jim Griffin,
11, Woodbrooke Manor,
Tralee,
Co Kerry.
