Transport 21 - Flawed plan is the road to nowhere

What was described only a month ago by Transport Minister Martin Cullen as a “radical” plan, Transport 21 has become a “seriously flawed document” in the words of one of the country’s leading economists.

In a review published in the ESRI Quarterly Economic Commentary, Dr Sean Barrett of the Economics Department of Trinity College, presents a very worrying picture of the Government’s €34.4 billion transport strategy.

Dr Barrett delivered his grave warning on the day Taoiseach Bertie Ahern officially opened the €750 million Dublin Port tunnel — behind schedule and over-budget.