Sir, - I imagine that motorists all over the Greater Dublin area will currently be able to relate closely to the frustrating experience I endured on Friday afternoon last in trying to navigate a route from Sandyford to Sandycove.
Because of road-widening, holedigging, temporary traffic lights, more road-works and diversions, a 15-minute journey turned into a 50-minute one. It now becomes possible to suffer from car lag in South Dublin.
I have recently been accusing the Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown council of a lack of planning in their proposed massive programme of rezoning (for 2,000 houses) in the Stepaside area. There is no draft plan for this development and if the recent demonstrations of co-ordination in providing services and road improvements in the immediate and surrounding areas are anything to go by, I believe my accusations are well founded.
The shambles becomes even harder to accept when one considers that we have managed to implement special traffic flow initiatives on main artery routes into the city. We worked hard to find solutions to the central city problems, only to create new levels of traffic chaos in the suburbs. - Yours, etc., Don Briggs,
Stepaside,
Dublin 18.