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Article: Translink under pressure for a better and cheaper service
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- Belfast Telegraph
- Article date:
- November 10, 2009
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Last year, Translink cost the taxpayer over Pounds 109m.
Northern Ireland Railways, Ulsterbus and Metro are the main
providers of public transport services and, currently, face little
competition (other than from private cars).
Regional Development Minister, Conor Murphy, has launched a three-
month consultation on a proposed shake up, challenging any
complacency in the management structures. In a well researched
analysis, he has been shown, by a complex set of comparisons, that
today's Translink services are "commendable and critical"
achievements.
The minister now has evidence that decision making structures of
public transport are, in critical respects, inefficient. There is
also new ...