Dublin - Metrolink (Swords to Charlemont only)

And the same age profile who benefited greatly from soaring property prices during the 90s and will also boast about enjoying holidays abroad and the ease of moving around on their public transport systems.

You're right, apologises. The naysayers the media roll out may be in that age group, but I shouldn't label them all the same.

It's not fair, because they aren't objecting because they're "old people". That's a line of thinking that leads to the kind of us-versus-them crap that screws us all.

The "old people" you see opposing this project are opposing it for exactly the same reasons that younger people believe too; but, being retired or semi-retired, they have more time to spend on the day in, day out work of making objections.

People who are in favour of a plan won't put so much effort into saying so: you only ever hear the ones with an axe to grind. You hear very few people of any age supporting this project with the same kind of dedication that the naysayers show, but we all know just from talking to people that the overwhelming majority of the population is in favour of it.

Just call it what it is: entitlement.

Age has nothing to do with this. MacDonald I don't know, but McDowell was just as much an entitled p__ck thirty years ago before he was "old".

Hello, man here in his 60s, living in Dublin 4, married to another man in his early 70s. We both walk, cycle, use public transport and occasionally drive.

We have been vocally in favour of priority for public transport for decades, are in favour of modern architecture as well as conservation, are not afraid of high rise, and are not afraid of new development close to us. We are as frustrated as anyone else with the pace of progress in this city and country.

There has been an outbreak of nauseating, cliched ageism in some recent comments that would suggest that some people should revisit some of their favourite stereotypes.

Ageism is right down there with sexism, homophobia, racism and all the other ugly "isms".

Any chance you might give it a rest?

Yes, but they're not really "empty" either. Just because there's no traffic right when the photo was taken, it doesn't mean there's never any traffic.

I was a keen photographer at one point and I still take the odd picture now and then, and I reckon any decent photographer could get you pictures of even the M50 empty if you wanted them. Just after dawn on a Sunday morning in Summer you'd have a good few chances: it's only got to be free of cars inside the camera's field of view for the time it takes to take the picture. You just need to wait for that moment before clicking the shutter button. (this is true of all photography really)

But, Metrolink: the same thing applies. I guarantee that, once in service, there will be trains running completely empty between stops at certain times (7-10 pm is always very quiet) . Nobody is going to photograph these and claim ML was a waste of money because it's empty sometimes, because there'll be too much evidence of full trains in the peak travel times for a claim like that to fly...

That's some absurd reasoning, sure based on that the entire network should be redesigned to accommodate 15 storey structures because someone at some point might want to build one somewhere.....

The breathtaking irony here is that a 15 storey residential block in Ballymun is not really viable (especially from a DCC planning perspective) if there's no Metrolink running through the area!