Sir, - Your Editorials of December 31st and January 2nd are commendable. However, you fail to enunciate the adverse effect on the tourism industry of the absence of an adequate taxi service.
As one who is involved in tourism (I own and run a guesthouse in Dun Laoghaire), I am constantly embarrassed by the lack of an adequate taxi service in Dublin. It is not unusual for guests to have to wait two hours for a taxi to the city on a Saturday night, while getting home is a worse nightmare. Recently, three English guests joined a queue at a taxi-rank in the city centre at 3.00 a.m. They got a taxi to Dun Laoghaire at 6.30 a.m.
It is a damning indictment of our elected representatives that they seem to have neither the will not the courage to deal with this issue. For how much longer must the people of this city, let them be tourists or otherwise, put up with this farce, this sham, that some have the gall to label a taxi service. - Yours, etc., David P. Jameson,
York Road, Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin.