As a member of Cork City Council, I was recently involved in drawing up the Cork area strategic plan and was one of the people who delayed the implementation of the so-called experts' report because they refused point blank to consider the development of light rail in the future for the south side of the city. All I wanted the developers to do was draw a line on the map of the city and set the land involved aside for the potential future development of light rail. If we want to get people off the roads, we can only do so if we provide them with a fast, efficient and reliable public transport service. That is how we must plan for the future. There have been too many examples of bad infrastructural planning based on the needs of yesterday or today. When one looks backwards, 20 years does not seem long ago, but when one is looking forward, it seems far away. However, we have paid for the bad decisions of the past.