Sir, – David Doran (Letters, June 7th) suggests connecting Swords and Dublin Airport by Luas to the existing Green Line at Broombridge. On the face of it, this is an attractive idea, replacing the proposed Metro scheme with a service that theoretically would be cheaper and quicker to build. The problem would be the usual one, faced by every proposal to link the north of the city of Dublin to its centre since 1975. We have had the Dublin Rail Rapid Transit System, implemented in truncated form as the Dart, the 1991 proposals, a proposal in 1998 to link the airport by diesel rail via Finglas, two scrapped Metro schemes, and now Metrolink. All failed through paralysis by analysis, the false belief that buses and car parking were sufficient, and ultimately, the failure of government to buckle up and get things done. Can people put away the pencils, and lift shovels instead, to connect Swords and points south, for once? – Yours, etc,
CORNELIUS LOGUE,
Quigleys Point,
Co Donegal.