Madam, - Recently some new identification signs have been erected at DART stations. Their design is completely different from any of the ones already on display and, as if to emphasise this, the positions of the Irish and English versions of the station names have been reversed, with the former now appearing below the latter.
Common sense suggests that stations should be identified by signs (preferably of uniform design) placed at regular intervals along the entire length of the platform. Instead, the recent additions have, in many instances, been erected either above of below existing signs with the result that many poles carry two, while some are displaying no fewer than three. In some places there are as many as four signs in close proximity, all of different design.
I wonder if any members of the management of Iarnród Éireann ever travel by DART. If they did they would surely realise that this higgledy-piggledy display of a hotchpotch of signs creates a very poor image of their organisation and serves to reinforce in the minds of visitors preconceived notions of Ireland as a quaint, run-down backwater. - Yours, etc.,
M.D. KENNEDY,
Silchester Park,
Glenageary,
Co Dublin.