Sir, – Una Mullally wonders at the lack of a rail-link to Dublin Airport (“‘Can you not get a lift?’: An Irish solution to Dublin Airport’s transport problem”, Opinion & Analysis, June 5th).
Currently, over €300 million has been spent just on plans down the years to build a metro to the airport, but construction has never looked like starting.
Perhaps if an extension of the Luas Green line from Broombridge to the airport had been built, the €300 million spent on high-falutin’ grandiose €9.5 billion Metro schemes could have built a Luas rail link instead, which would be operational right now.
Imagine a further extension to Swords; the northern rail line would also help to remove unnecessary travel into the city centre, as well as servicing the rapidly growing town of Swords, while linking Maynooth and the west/northwest mainline rail lines to the airport, again reducing unnecessary travel into the crowded city centre.
It mightn’t be the perfection, which some people apparently require, but for the rest of us, it would be perfectly fine.
And likely to cost far less than the estimated €9.5 billion (probably far, far more in actuality) Metro line, which is unlikely ever to be built.
Extend the Luas Broombridge line to the airport and then on to Swords and the northern rail line. – Yours, etc,
DAVID DORAN,
Bagenalstown,
Co Carlow.