New group aims to fast-track integrated ticketing

A HIGH-POWERED project group is expected to present their plan for the introduction of Ireland’s long-awaited integrated ticketing system in the autumn, it was learned yesterday.

Transport Minister Martin Cullen, who says he is anxious to move the €30 million project forward as quickly as possible, has asked the new body to set a realistic timetable for the system’s implementation.

The group has also been asked to advise how the project can be achieved as quickly as possible and without the kind of complications that cropped up in a previous attempt to move it forward.