Madam, – Aris Venetikidis’s new maps of public transport in Dublin are absolutely brilliant! (“Capital idea imagines new way forward”, Home News, August 30th). But isn’t it extraordinary that it takes a foreigner to come up with such an idea, rather than Dublin Bus and Iarnród Éireann, given that such maps have long existed for cities all over the world. After all, senior officials love making junkets, sorry, fact-finding missions, to other countries.
Hopefully, the next step for downtrodden public bus commuters will be a timetable at every bus stop for that particular bus stop, so you know how long you will have to wait, when to expect the first/last bus and so forth. This is standard fare all over mainland Europe (and in fairness for the Dart) and pretty simple to implement. – Yours, etc,