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Thu 09 Sep 2008Best tactic on Metro is to keep digging
OPINIONAny cutback on building an integrated transport system in Dublin would end up being costly, writes John Gibbons
A HUNDRED years ago this week, the first Ford Model T rolled off the production line and ushered in the century of the car. In its early days, the car faced stiff competition in the US from a well-established network of trams. By the early 1920s, practically every American city and town had at least one tram company.
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