New Transport Strategy For The Greater Dublin Area

The Dublin Transportation Office has announced that it is to develop a new Transport Strategy for the Greater Dublin Area (GDA), which will set out the infrastructure and other requirements for the region from the year 2010 to 2030.

The new Strategy will be published in 2010, and will be the successor to the DTO's previous strategy proposal, A Platform for Change: Strategy 2000 - 2016, published in 2000, which was the first plan to propose Luas, Metro and a Quality Bus Network for the GDA.

The DTO Strategy Team's plans include major consultation, to involve all companies, agencies and representative groups involved in providing and using transportation in the region, as well as an inclusive public consultation programme, which will invite views, suggestions and feedback from everyone in Ireland.


Extensive use of the DTO's state of the art Transportation Modelling software will be used to determine the ideal transport network, modes, capacities and frequencies to cater for the levels of demand forecast for the region in 20 years' time.

Announcing the move, DTO Director John Henry, said: "Transport impacts on everyone, and has a direct impact on people's quality of life. It is timely that we are now starting to visualise the type of City and Region we want for the year 2030, and putting the plans in place that will meet those objectives and take us there.

"We will be involving all the agencies involved in providing transport in the GDA, and will be seeking the involvement of people living and working in the region, as well as people living throughout the rest of Ireland, who visit their Capital region for leisure or other reasons."

Mr Henry added: "We will also be involving policy-makers from other relevant sectors, including Environment, Land Use, Health, Education and Energy in our planning. Real improvements in quality of life for all Dubliners will come from co-ordinating all our long-term planning in this way."

The new transport strategy for Dublin will take account of all current plans and programmes, including those being provided under Transport 21, and it will outline the phased implementation of the new proposals.

Initial consultation and planning will begin over the next month, and the public element of the consultation will be launched in the first half of 2008.

(GK/JM)