Sir, - I have just endured yet another painful and frustrating journey to town on the DART. Might I ask why they choose to lay on a "service" of short trains to the city centre at the height of rush hour - and this when there is already a 20-minute gap between DART trains. Not to mention, of course, the delays, the non-arrival of trains, and the utter lack of explanation or apology that are regular features of the commuter's daily struggle.
I object strongly to being wedged up against strangers for half-an-hour twice a day, but I am young and fit and it merely angers me. Perhaps the powers that be could spare a thought for the elderly - one of whom was in a state of near panic beside me.
As for me, I will be driving from now on and take my chances on parking in the city centre. Not so strange then, that traffic congestion has been increasing? I have no objection to paying for a service, but what Iarnrod Eireann is providing is nothing short of an insult. Is it too much to ask that we could rely on public transport to get us to work on time?
We should take a lesson from continental Europe - Paris and Brussels had public transport systems 30 years ago which even now far outweigh the current offering. Never mind the Celtic Tiger - cats don't take the DART. - Yours, etc., Una McMahon,
Raheny Road, Raheny, Dublin 5.