Sir, - Once again the management and employees of CIE are at each others throats and once again the public are the ones to suffer. This nonsense has gone on long enough. In fact it seems to have gone on intermittently for most of my lifetime.
This city and country deserve a public transport system, and system is the operative word in this sentence. At present, country bus services are so scanty as to be derisory, the trains are so overcrowded they are becoming dangerous and Dublin Bus services seem to be run at the whim of the frequently surly staff rather than with any intention of serving the public.
The only moderately hopeful sign is that at last some politicians seem to be taking some interest in the problem. This is welcome, even if it is a quarter-of-a-century too late. I hope we don't have to wait for another 25 years and another shelf full of dusty reports before they translate their interest into action by buying adequate rolling-stock for the railways and getting rid of CIE's monopoly in bus services.
I would also like to suggest that they pay a little attention to the long-suffering people who use the transport services and are heartily sick of the arrogance of Bunting and his cronies and the mismanagement of CIE.-Yours, etc., Patrick Dunne,
Millmount Avenue, Drumcondra, Dublin 9.