The Dublin Transportation Office (DTO) is a government agency, formed in 1996, which provides transport and land use advise to organisations operating in the Greater Dublin Area. It has relatively limited powers and is not a full transport authority. However the DTO is largely reponsbile for the Quality Bus Corridor initiative which has had some success in promoting use of buses in Dublin. Map of the Greater Dublin Area Greater Dublin Area (GDA) is a loosely defined term which is used to describe the city of Dublin and the counties of Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, Fingal, Kildare, Meath, South Dublin and Wicklow of the Republic of Ireland. ... Introduction and Benefits Delays, congestion, accidents, and pollution are just some of the problems caused by growing car use. ...
A fully-fledged transport authority for Dublin [1] has been promised by the Irish Government though no definite dates have been set. Such a body may well replace or subsume the activities of the current DTO.
The DTO is a government agency, formed in 1996, which provides transport and land use advice to organisations operating in the Greater Dublin Area.
It is important, therefore, to put transportation in the context of the broader objectives for the city and region.
The starting point for the development of the DTO Strategy was, therefore, to ask the question: what type of city and region do we wish to live, work and relax in?.