Sir, - Credit is due to Mr Bobby Molloy for his initiative to increase the number of taxi licences in the Dublin area. While it has undoubtedly taken far too long to introduce such reform, it is a welcome step towards ensuring an acceptable level of service for citizens and visitors. The immediate reaction from the taxi drivers has been to withhold services from customers at Dublin airport, hardly a public relations master-stroke. Presumably the driving public of Dublin can look forward to the inevitable "protest" on O'Connell Street, or some other major arterial route, at 5 p.m. on Friday evening. - Yours, etc.,
Ian Drennan, Brookdale Road, Swords, Co Dublin.