Another pathetic joke.
Is anybody else just sick to death of this half arsed game that the politicians of Ireland are playing with our lives.
Not only was I 1/2 of an hour late for work this morning due to IE's complete incompetence to run a transport service but I read about Martin cullens fantastic foresight to drop this issue from the DTA's remit.

what a hopeless hole this country can be sometimes

What most people have not spotted is page 41 where the report is signed March 28th 2006

Yesterday was November 9th

Where did the other 7 odd months go? Its yet more evidence of Cullen sitting on and holding up serious progress in Dublin Transport, I could understand a months delay buts its only 51 pages and its not unlike you could have guessed what is coming

It's actually on the front cover
"March 2006"

Disgraceful :mad:

It seems like the legislation is drafted and ready to go. Does it take 7 months drafting legislation as complex as this?

Well it does take time and this is very complex since it relates to several bodies and has widespread impact, but we should have had the report in public within a month of it being finished, its contents are hardly unexpected

I doubt we will be seeing this anytime soon, buried in the report is a need to totally restructure CIE, it shouldn't have any union impact all it changes is management and funding however when that great day arrives that the DTA put the foot down it on service provision things are going to get really painfull in Irish Rail since the current love in they have with the DoT will be gone

All this service standard stuff already exists but is not legally enforceable, then again no one has ever seen the standard

Good Report.

Minister Bins it.

Head walks away.

Great days work for the DoT.

I don`t Know about anybody else but this represents yet another underlining of our national weakness for forward planning.

From my perspective the Essence of the "New" Dublin Transport Authority was always going to be the power it would have to excercise Authoritative Power over what has become a national shambles concerning Planning and Development.

Mr Cullen might as well have closed the book and walked off the stage.
Without this essential element of AUTHORITY the DTA simply becomes yet another comfy board for Taoisigh to appoint "Friends" to.

We all remember Prof O Mahoneys opening salvo when she took up her interim appointment.
She was quite precise in her outlining of "Knocking Heads Together" as being something she would not shirk from if it came to that.

Well we now know that that awful scenario will not now happen,and the long established 4 ball`s will remain as peaceful and undisturbed as ever...

Sadly for Dublin we shall now have to watch as T21 descends into a fudge of well meaning chaotic spending with little real focus.

The predominance of the Local Government machine has been underlined and Ministers need not fret over the Democratic Process being undermined.
The confidence which this Political elite possess is shown by the barefaced straight face on the Minister as he rubbed the good prof`s nose in his Political Litter Tray.

I predict a very well defined slide into T21 chaos as the power struggles continue and I will be as surprised as hell if we even get the Drumcondra Station Bus Interchange as far as a detailed drawing....:eek:

Well Im on your team Billy and the longer it goes on the more vocal I'll get. Im sure my opinions are well documented.

Con Job!

Dublin Transport Authority 1986 - 1987
Dublin Transportation Office 1995 - 2006
Dublin Transport Authority 2006 - ?

Have we gone full circle?

History has shown that if it isnt given the proper powers and freedom it will fail, simple as that.

From todays Irish Examiner

Its not the RPAs fault, but it should've been done that way from the start. They are victims of poor Governance. As for the other bunch...

50 years of hardened, dogmatic resistance to change, so why would this news bother them.

In my opinion, the current Governments poor record in transport is coming back to haunt them via the proposed DTA. It should've been the first thing they did upon gaining power. It made sense then and it makes sense now, but a lot of water has been forced under the bridge since.

This issue will turn into a charade.

Now the RPA is a little bit annoyed that they are to be merged (abolished really) and this will set them back a good few years.

Which may be just what the minister ordered.

I don't understand why the RPA needs abolishing because of the DTA though. Surely the DTA should be the 'GOD' authority. They don't need to actually procure the infrastructure, just make sure that the agencies work together in integration etc. The RPA afterall has responsibility for the whole country, not just Dublin.

In reality they don't. All of their projects over the next decade are Dublin based. The confusion started when the Gov portrayed them as a type of RPA clone. That was a bad move. Best way forward now is as you say. Let them get on with it, but answer directly to the RPA.

Surely the solution is to simply rename the RPA to the DTA infrastructure procurement division

The most interesting issue in all this is that CIE having to get permission off the new authority if they want to sell land. To me personally this represents enough reason for the authority to be given all the power it needs. I can only imagine how they reacted in the CIE board room when that bit of news came in.

Yeah I was highy amused reading that bit too.

I just wish this had of been done years ago before Treasury holdings got their hands on Spencer Dock.

Will Platform 11 be making a submission about the DTA before Friday's deadline and if so will members get to see it?