We don’t need any help creating traffic chaos

Sir, – Jack Power reports that Europe’s leaders are set to “deliver traffic chaos to Dublin” (“High politics and traffic chaos: Europe’s leaders are coming to Dublin”, Politics, November 9th). With the greatest respect to our European partners, Dublin needs no outside help in this department.

We have spent decades perfecting gridlock entirely on our own steam. We can bring the city to a standstill with a single dropped mattress on the M50, a light drizzle on the quays or the mere rumour of a concert in Croke Park. We are the proud owners of a junction where a bus lane, a Luas line and a cycle path can all be blocked by the same delivery van. MetroLink has been “coming soon” for so long that it might as well come under the auspices of the Department of Heritage. – Yours, etc,

STEPHEN MCGOVERN,

Donnybrook,

RM Block

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