RAPHAEL B. MERRIMAN,
A chara, - Mr Seamus Brennan says it is only a matter of time before the new Luas flyover at Dundrum becomes known as "the Golden Gate of the Southside" (The Irish Times, August 8th).
I live in view of the Golden Gate Bridge, beckoning to the azure Pacific ocean behind, the Marin mountains to the north and the hills and spires of San Francisco to the south. Either Mr Brennan recently consumed an architectural hallucinogen or he has never seen the genuine article. But either way, with such thoughtful analogies, he is guaranteed to keep us in convulsions. What's next? That the new Eircom mobile phone mast in Ballymun could "in time become known as the Eiffel Tower of the Northside"? Leopold Bloom would never recognise the place. - Is mise,
RAPHAEL B. MERRIMAN, Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, California.