Sir, Ironies of the Trinity College bottleneck and your report of August 5th CIE and its consultants now agree that cars and light rail cannot co exist in the Trinity College/Dawson Street area, and challenge those who made the problem public to find the solution. The same PR firm argues that an LRT tunnel is not a solution, and that the port access tunnel is a wonderful concept.
The controversy has flushed out the principle that LRT is to reclaim city streets from the car" although publicity material still shows cars in front of Trinity. The developers of suburban shopping centres must be rubbing their hands. The more we hear about the standing room capacity of the LRT vehicles, the more attractive is the alternative of taking a comfortable sit down bus (or driving a car) to the suburbs.
Suggestions let CIE's consultants look for a solution to the TCD problem, rather than a non solution. The Dublin drainage system and extensions to the Paris Metro/RER may offer examples as to how to build with relatively little disruption. If CIE has no ready solution to this problem, then it should build the Ballymun line while it continues to look for one. Yours, etc., Belmont Gardens, Dublin 4.