Dublin Transport Authority

gobdaw

What has happened to Professor Margaret O'Mahony and her “Dublin Transport Authority”? The purpose was to be a body with teeth to ensure joined up delivery in the Greater Dublin Area from all transport modes so that the city and surrounding areas kept moving.

It is now that such a body, with statutory powers, should be addressing the provision of the skeleton of infrastructure projects so that all transport modes, bus and rail, road use and planning, taxi regulation and the traffic corps are integrated and working to optimum level.

Dublin bus are formulating a revamp of the basic structure of their routes and awaiting approval for the purchase of additional busses.

IE are awaiting the green light on a number of projects from the Kildare line, Navan, the interconnector.

RPA have four separate Luas proposals, with the two Metro lines coming up shortly.

Interconnections, routes, future road and rail alignment reservations, power and gauge standardisation, passenger capacity need addressing by an overarching authority rather than being subject to the sectional interests of different transport bodies and local authorities.

Currently, they are centred in the hands of two politicians, one based in Wexford and the other in Donegal.

mackerski

gobdaw wrote:

Currently, they are centred in the hands of two politicians, one based in Wexford and the other in Donegal.

Decentralisation in its purest form.

Dermot

shltter

Waterford

MT

gobdaw wrote:

Currently, they are centred in the hands of two politicians, one based in Wexford and the other in Donegal.

Careful, with a mistake like that someone from rural Ireland might pop in to deride the 'Dublin mindset' on display in this thread! And then demand a Dart extension to neglected denizens of Waterford.

spacetweek

gobdaw wrote:

What has happened to Professor Margaret O'Mahony and her “Dublin Transport Authority”? The purpose was to be a body with teeth to ensure joined up delivery in the Greater Dublin Area from all transport modes so that the city and surrounding areas kept moving.

I wasn't too into that when I heard it. We already have the DTO Dublin Transportation Office, it just sounds like unnecessary duplication. We don't need more organisations, we need the existing ones to start moving.

Slice

I think the Dublin Transport Authority is meant to replace the Dublin Transport Office

Victor

MT wrote:

Careful, with a mistake like that someone from rural Ireland might pop in to deride the 'Dublin mindset' on display in this thread! And then demand a Dart extension to neglected denizens of Waterford.

The WART? :v: