Riddle of the roundabout

Madam, - So the Mad Cow Roundabout, formerly known as the Red Cow Roundabout, looks set to become the Dead Cow Roundabout while…

Madam, - So the Mad Cow Roundabout, formerly known as the Red Cow Roundabout, looks set to become the Dead Cow Roundabout while it is being rebuilt.

If tolls are introduced, it could then become the Cash Cow Roundabout to complement its very profitable sister at the West Link.

Might this become another case of motorists paying through the nose and being milked at the same time?

This is all a roundabout way of asking why private funding is being considered for the rebuilding at a time when the Exchequer is awash with funds for such "essentials" as benchmarking and the National Pension Reserve Fund. - Yours, etc.,

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BRIAN FLANAGAN,

Blackrock,

Co Dublin.