Tuesday, July 06, 2004
I was one of the hundreds of thousands who spent part of the weekend on the Luas. Despite being clearly designed by a Wexford man – the floor looks disconcertingly like the Cusack stand during a Leinster hurling final – the whole thing is great.
With the sun shining on Sunday afternoon, you could almost be in another city – one with a real public transport system. And one with a few places most people on my tram had never even heard of – Cowper? Ballaly?. And a few that confused us – Kilmacud looks like it’s the Irish for ‘middle of nowhere’, and the Stillorgan stop is about 50 yards away from the Sandyford stop, and nowhere near the bowling alley.
But as we zoomed back into town – there are a lot of stops but the thing really accelerates between them – and rounded the elegant curve of Harcourt St, I was glad to have been on it during its opening weekend.
Now can someone remind my why the two lines don’t meet up?