Madam, - We Corkonians should rejoice for our compatriots in Dublin as we gaze in awe and wonder at their state-of-the-art transport system.
In addition to a modern bus fleet, they have the Dart, an expanding Luas network with brand new trams and talk of a metro. Here in Cork we have clapped-out, overcrowded buses and traffic gridlock - caused by selfish motorists who insist on bringing their cars into the city centre.
If anyone doubts my word, let him try taking the No 8 bus westbound from the Courthouse to Bishopstown any weekday around 5pm. For how much longer must we in the South allow the politicians to treat us as a third-world banana republic? - Yours, etc,
SÉAMUS O'HEA, Bruach na Laoi Apartments, Union Quay, Cork.