BUSINESSMAN Tom Mulcahy, the chairman-designate of the Dublin Transport Authority (DTA), could get paid up to €74,000 for 62 days’ work.

JULITTA CLANCY (Irish Examiner letters, December 4) highlighted the future transport needs of the greater Dublin region.

A STANDOFF between two of Dublin’s largest transport agencies over a small stretch of track is stalling plans to connect the city’s Luas lines.

TRANSPORT worker unions have threatened industrial action in the run-up to Christmas if the Government does not delay its deadline for proposals on the new Dublin Transport Authority.

THE State body with current responsibility for the development of a Metro for Dublin has hit out at plans by the Transport Minister, Martin Cullen, to replace it with a new agency.

A NEW super-authority is to assume responsibility for implementing the Government’s €14 billion programme to improve public transport services in the greater Dublin region.

Minister for Transport Martin Cullen will reportedly announce details of the workings of the planned new Dublin Transportation Authority (DTA) later today.

THE Government is to open up the Dublin bus market to competition in coming months by tendering out routes to private operators.

Dr Margaret O'Mahony, professor of civil engineering at Trinity College Dublin, has been appointed to lead a high-powered team to help implement the Government's €34.4 billion Transport 21 plan, unveiled by Transport Minister Martin Cullen last week.

THE woman charged with heading up the country’s ambitious transport plan last night pledged she would not let central Dublin become a giant building site for the next 10 years.