Luas Change.....

Did you ever suddenly realise that you had been well and truly conned ?

I thought that I was the only person in the country who was suspicious of the way in which the lconnection of the two Luas lines was being delayed . Today I came across a comment on Wikipedia which said something like 'as we all know there is no intention to join up the two Luas lines at all '. Apparently those who know what's good for us in this , so called , democratic society had decided before the Luas was built at all that the Green Line , which opened first , was just meant to be a temporary tram service and the real purpose of opening up the old Harcourt St. line was to prepare the way for what now is referred to as a Metro .Again , apparently the whole track was built with the heavier 'Metro ' in mind .
Now if this is the case , a number of things come to mind , first of all the total cost of building the original Luas line(s) we are told , was €770m , but so far I have been unable to get a breakdown of the cost between Red (or Blood Line as certain elements in South Dublin refer to it ) and the Green Line , but having travelled on both (and incidentally wondering why I had to take a 15min.walk from O'Connell St. to St.Stephen's Green to get to Stillorgan ) , seeing all the new (or rebuilt )stations , the restored Nine Arches in Milltown , and the cost of buying back all the back gardens behinh Palmerstown Park and topping the lot off with the brand new state-of-the-art bridge in Dundrum (the original of which , incidently , the' bould 'Tod Andrews had torn down ,when he was throwing his weight around in CIE ) , I would make a wild guess that of the €770 mil. spent , at least €500 mil. was spent on the Green Line (13 stops/stations) and the €270 was spent on the 23 stops on the Red Line) .
secondly ..why was the impression deliberately created that there would only be one Luas Line , when they were planning to build two for the price of three...?

thirdly....where did the demand for a ' Metro ' which only serves a part of the city ,( a part of the city which already has the DART by the way ), where did this demand come from...?
And now , of course ,we are being told that the Metro building has already started......have a guess where the clowns who brought us the overpriced Luas , the overpriced Port Tunnel , and all the other infrastructure that could have been built for a fraction of the cost.....guess where they are starting .???.....yes ....Stephens Green.....the mind boggles to think what these faceless , mindless moneywasters will do with their bottomless Transport 21 budget , when they start digging up the Green....

If our new Taoiseach is wondering where to save on his Capital Budget......please start by forgetting about this Metro nonsense and connect up the Red and Green Luases as originally planned......