Sir, – In 1971, An Foras Forbartha published the Dublin Transportation Study, which recommended an investigation into the feasibility and costs of constructing a short underground in central Dublin that would more effectively connect the four existing rail lines in the city. More than 50 years later, we’re still bickering over what it should look like.
Meanwhile, the city of Beijing has built 27 metro lines and 490 stations, most of them in the last 20 years.
Can we please just get on with it? – Yours, etc,
RICHARD BANNISTER,
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