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    The Mirror
    April 15, 2005, Friday

    IRISH DAILY MIRROR COMMENT: GET METRO ON TRACK


    THE EUR20billion plan to create a 21st century public transport
    network for Dublin is well timed.

    After the absolute chaos caused by one lorry accident yesterday, it
    is beyond doubt the capital's salvation lies in modern trains, buses
    and trams.

    The 1.25million people who live in Dublin are crying out for an
    efficient metro system.

    It is the only capital in Europe, East and West, without an
    underground.

    It is shameful and a sorry indictment of successive governments who
    have failed to invest in public transport.

    At a time when even those in charge of the capital of
    poverty-stricken Armenia are building a metro, it is especially
    embarrassing for our Government that Dublin doesn't have one.

    The decision to build a wide-ranging, all-encompassing underground
    rail system in Dublin must be made post-haste.

    It cannot be piece-meal, deciding to build one section at a time. It
    must be built in its entirety at the same time.

    Bertie Ahern has promised - in this paper - to build a metro for
    Dublin by 2016.

    His pledge - if fulfilled - will be remembered forever by the people
    of Dublin as the single initiative that saved the historic capital
    from decades of chaos and degeneration.

    There can be no more dithering. Sign the cheque now. Secure the
    capital's future prosperity, whatever the cost.
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