Vienna...

"Transport 21, meet Vienna."
"Vienna, this is Transport 21. Could you teach them a thing or two about transport?"

Ah; 1 Mozart, 2 Wagners, 3 Strauss brothers; I present Vienna. A city with a population of 1.6 million, according to the bus tour. The lads and lassies who junket in citadels foreign should be sent to Vienna. On a plate is what one needs outputted from Transport 21. 1 Dart line, 1 Dublin Bus system and 2 Luas lines that do not connect is the starting point. Join the dots lads to get from A to B. Here is a city that has it all, buses, trams, an underground system and plenty of green spaces.

We are at the tail end of our famed Celtic Tiger I assume. While cavorting around Vienna for 48 hours, I realised that instead of lowering taxes during this economic flush, the government should have done the exact opposite and raised them. Of course they didn't have the cojones. No doubt it would have been termed "political suicide", a term consistently bandied about by the media. Nonetheless wouldn't it have been nice to have something to show for those years, rather than a half-arsed Luas that joins nothing and goes nowhere?