Sir, - Great to see David Noris rowing in after Garret FitzGerald in the battle to prevent the light rail system from fouling Dublin's streets. While his view that it promises to be an aesthetic and functional disaster if it runs along the streets is true, would he not be in favour of it being elevated?
Modern technology and materials could quite easily allow the construction of an "€1" supported by single cantilevered pylons rooted in the pavements. They could even he made to look less than ugly (though nobody in their right mind would suggest that they should be erected in O'Connell or any other street with a vista) and would allow on impeded transit for tram and ear alike.
Fatalistically, however, I can see myself in five years' time, in torrential winter rain and surrounded by gridlocked, steamed up ears, trying to board one of a conga line of trams packed like sardine cans. Undoubtedly the jokey reprise of the British Rail slogan will come to mind - "It's quicker by Snail". - Yours, etc.,
South Hill,
Dartry,
Dublin 6.