Sir, – Congratulations to the people at Transport for Ireland (TFI) who kept a virtual bus service running during the period Dublin Bus suspended all services yesterday morning.
Despite the absence of actual buses, the TFI information app maintained a virtual service reporting “real time” information on bus arrival and departure times.
Many of us considered the TFI app a pretty poor substitute for the Dublin Bus information app it replaced. How wrong we were.
In the virtual reality of TFI land, there will always be a bus on the way. – Yours, etc,
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BILLY HANNIGAN,
Limekiln,
Dublin 12.
Sir, – Yesterday morning, while driving on the M50 at 6.30am, the speed limit was restricted to 80 km/h due to stormy weather conditions.
The vast majority of drivers ignored the speed limits.
One car passed by doing about 140km/h as it disappeared within seconds.
What hope have we got in trying to reduce the fatalities on the roads with the irresponsible attitudes of drivers like that? – Yours, etc,
JIM FRANEY,
Rathfarnham,
Dublin 16.
A chara, – Your article about Storm Debi (News, November 13th) names those counties in the south of Ireland at worst risk from the ravages of this latest weather extreme.
A footnote to his article includes a warning from the UK Met Office that in the north the counties of Antrim, Armagh, Down, Tyrone, Fermanagh and Derry are most at risk.
That narrows things down considerably. Míle buíochas. – Is mise,
CAOIMHÍN Ó SEANÁIN,
Béal Feirste.
