Madam, - Your Editorial on Dublin transport (October 25th) was something of a curate's egg - good in parts. Yes, Dublin badly needs an integrated transport system, with integrated ticketing.
However, underground links between Heuston and Spencer Dock and between the city and the airport are the first, not the last, things we need: where else but beneath the city can these links be provided without massive, permanent disruption to the city's fabric?
Costly, yes, but grandiose, certainly not. Let us remember that the systems now to be built will serve well into the 22nd century.
But your assertion that the two new Luas lines are of different widths is quite astonishing - this canard is fast achieving the status of an urban myth. Today I went out and measured both the red and the green lines - let me assure you, and your readers, that the tracks on both lines are precisely 1435 millimetres apart. I think you owe it to your readers to make it clear that the two Luas lines and their rolling stock are indeed fully compatible. - Yours, etc.,
MICHAEL BOYLE,
Butterfield Drive,
Rathfarnham,
Dublin 14.