Sir, – Ed Power (“I have been let down so often by public transport I am incapable of trusting it”, Life & Style, September 7th) casts a cold eye on his experience of bus travel in the capital, citing delayed and non-existent services among his list of woes.
The solution is not to be found in private transport.
On Tuesday afternoon last week, about 4.30pm, I and hundreds of other motorists were stuck in an emission-belching quagmire of traffic which took 40 minutes to travel the three kilometres from Crumlin village to the Red Cow on the route southwest from Dublin.
Our vehicles became saunas on wheels as the sun blazed on our windscreens, which were in turn enveloped in a haze of exhaust particles.
There was no exceptional reason by way of accident or roadworks for such congestion – it was simply the overwhelming volume of traffic spewing out of the city.
We glanced with envy at the gleaming Transport for Ireland buses gliding by on the bus lanes ferrying their passengers with comfort and efficiency past the grinding gears and gnashing teeth of their car-bound fellow commuters. – Yours, etc,
LIAM KENNY,
Naas,
Co Kildare.