Bastille Realty’s challenge is the third case filed against permission for the route in recent weeks. The cases follow challenges to four other corridors approved as part of the flagship transport project.
The value of the contract, which has increased from €30m in 2016, reflects the NTA’s desire to install 500 new bus shelters a year, up from 120 a year when the contract was first put to tender nine years ago.
Deloitte infrastructure lead Stephen Prendiville and Oxford academic Debbie Hopkins spoke with The Currency about getting Ireland’s ground transport right as it shifts to a more interconnected, sustainable system.
Ireland’s first All-Island Strategic Rail Review has been launched, promising to treble rail passenger numbers across the island at a cost of nearly €60 billion. However, is the plan workable and can it deliver?
Careful project selection is being supplanted with advance political commitment to unevaluated schemes, after which "delivery" becomes an obligation regardless of value for money.
Free bus and rail tickets are not on the table. Their discussion has helped pave the way for investment in better services and restrictions on car usage, however.
Six years on from founding CitySwift, Brian O’Rourke and Alan Farrelly explain how they developed AI to optimise bus fleets, sold it to the UK’s major operators and are now going international – having raised funds from A-list investors including Ryanair’s founding family along the way.
Covid-19 has smashed transport companies, and social distancing will make many of them non-viable. Governments have rushed to the aid of a small number of favoured companies. Could the end result be a re-nationalisation of the transport industry?
Despite the uncertainty surrounding the future of the state’s finances, tendering to build and run the capital’s first underground rail system is ramping up.
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