Disappearing rail lines

Sir, – Dee Delaney’s letter (“Disappearing Dart service”, Letters, November 7th) on her son’s travails with a disappearing Dart service in Raheny struck a chord with me.

Travelling on the insanely congested N17 regularly between Galway and Sligo, one can clearly see a closed railway alongside the entirety of the route.

As the Government works at commendable speed to reopen the much-needed link from Galway to Mayo, the rest of the line to Sligo is ridiculously under threat of being tarmacked over and turned into a greenway.

That would be a case of a disappearing service in the east and a disappearing railway in the west, an untenable outcome for commuters sitting each day on the N17 between Galway and Sligo. – Yours, etc,

ULTAN KEADY,

Caherlistrane,

Co Galway.