Comments on: Dublin City councillors finally notice Dublin Transport Authority on horizon

By: armitage

armitage — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:12:16 +0000

Yep, as usual you are spot on Alek. I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for a congestion charge to be introduced anywhere in the 26 counties.

If only one of our leaders would show, um, leadership on issues like this.

By: Alek Smart

Alek Smart — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:33:43 +0000

Gerard.
There will eventually be some form of Transit charge for private use of the City Centre`s roads network.
However it`s not likely to be anyway soon,perhaps even decades away.
The London C-Charge is the one which all of our wild eyed administrators look to for justification.
This alone should give us an indication of how it will pan out as the Irish Public Administrative sector have absolutely no real idea of what TfL actually is.
Nowhere is this yawning chasm more obvious than in Dublin City Council where the DTA penny finally dropping has stimulated it`s members into a fit of the heebie-jeebies at the prospect of being TOLD what to do…They are having none of this..which can only mean yet more dogfights and lunacy with NO progress being made on ANY traffic issues !!

By: Gerard Bartley

Gerard Bartley — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:10:27 +0000

Dear Sirs,

Do you think a congestion charge for Dublin city centre will be introduced in the coming years?

If so, when is it likely to occur?

Kind regards,

Gerard Bartley.
Transport Manager

By: Al

Al — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 23:46:47 +0000

This sounds like the DUTC, but with the powers of a Robert Moses. Will be very interesting to see this new bureaucracy in action. Something tells me that you will see NIMBYs on the scene like never before.