Metro Sense

My letter in the Metro today:



It makes sense if you read the Metro letters page on a semi-regular basis. People are accusing me of making it too highbrow. Keep your peepers peeled for the follow up: "Screw them single mothers."

I Respond

Michael,

Thanks for your reply. Apologies for my mail yesterday, it was unreasonably rude.

In general I have an issue with additional charges for public services. I think that this will become a headache for Irish Rail, and people will go back to local estates/roadside to park. Perhaps you have been working with local councils on this, because disc parking/double yellows will be the only way to stop it. People are cheap.

Allowing for 48 working weeks at €5, €240 a year is a lot of money to add on to the €980 that I pay for my annual ticket. Perhaps the parking charges can be added to your taxsaver.ie program?

Still, it's coming in to summer and I have a bike. Maybe I should get off my fat ass and use it.

Regards,
Conor

Letter to Irish Rail

Sent this off to Irish Rail today:

Hi,

A new car park has been built in Leixlip Louisa Bridge. You are going to charge €2 a day to use it and have converted your existing free car park to pay-per-use also.
Presumably the car park was built to stop people parking on the road and neighbouring housing estates. A straw-poll on the platform this morning revealed that’s where people will continue to park because of an effective doubling of their train fare.

Making public transport that little bit less usable, you short-sighted monkeys.

I am not a crank,
Your etc.,
Conor