While reading about the propsed Metro line in Dublin I came across this post.
It really is astounding what we have to go through in this country in order to have a modern nation. Everytime a major infrastructural project (which other countries don’t even think twice about) is announced, hysterical chicken littles come screaming out of the closet with their eyes bulging and arms flapping with all kinds of forewarnings of doom and disaster…and how they are much more clever than the people who are building this stuff and spewing the most ignorant and uninformed gob****tery to back up their opinion.
and you just know that as soon as the Metro opens, all the “bloke down the pub told me…” experts will be queuing up for the first trip on it and going “sure Jaysus this is great!” as if their previous four years of terror and visions of apocalyptic disaster never actually happened.
It’s like a cultural disease we have in this country whereby anything new or different = doom and disaster.
Everytime somebody makes a hysterical comment about the Metro, the RPA should just whip out some news clippings and political comments about the Luas. Why even stop there! Go back to the electricfaction of the Dublin United Tramways and see the same carry on over 100 years back.
It is incredible sometimes that we Irish are not still all up the trees peeling bannans and picking nits out of each other’s heads.
The expression “hammer, nail head” comes to mind.
