Capital Investment

The National Transport Authority has responsibility for transport investment in the Greater Dublin Area. Following the December 2009 Budget we were allocated €344 million for capital investment over 2010, which has been allocated as follows:

  • to Irish Rail: for completion of the Navan rail line phase 1, for city centre resignalling, for the Kildare Route Project and for the DART Underground.
  • to the RPA: for completing the construction of the Luas extensions to Cherrywood and to Citywest and for ongoing preparatory work on Metro and other light rail projects.
  • for Bus and Traffic Management Infrastructure Grants: to cover bus priority measures, Dublin Bus’ Automatic Vehicle Location System (AVLS), Dublin City Council’s Real Time Passenger Information (RTPI) System requirements, and traffic management measures.

The National Transport Authority has published a set of Project Management Guidelines for its capital investment programme.

Bus users in the Greater Dublin Area will see genuine improvements when the Real Time Passenger Information system is introduced. People will be able to see in advance—on bus-stops, on line or by text message—when their next bus is due to arrive at the stop which suits them. This will be introduced along certain bus corridors later in 2010, and will be fully rolled out in 2011. A similar scheme for Cork is in development.

The Integrated Ticketing Project will deliver a smart-card which public transport users can use to pay fares on Dublin Bus, Irish Rail, Luas and Bus Eireann GDA services. It is at an advanced stage of development, with testing throughout summer and autumn 2010. The Railway Procurement Agency has been developing this project over the past few years, and the project will remain within the RPA into 2011 and will then transfer to the NTA.

In the Greater Dublin Area, the Transport for Dublin website provides a portal for information on all transport-related capital investment projects.

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