I don`t Know about anybody else but this represents yet another underlining of our national weakness for forward planning.
From my perspective the Essence of the "New" Dublin Transport Authority was always going to be the power it would have to excercise Authoritative Power over what has become a national shambles concerning Planning and Development.
Mr Cullen might as well have closed the book and walked off the stage.
Without this essential element of AUTHORITY the DTA simply becomes yet another comfy board for Taoisigh to appoint "Friends" to.
We all remember Prof O Mahoneys opening salvo when she took up her interim appointment.
She was quite precise in her outlining of "Knocking Heads Together" as being something she would not shirk from if it came to that.
Well we now know that that awful scenario will not now happen,and the long established 4 ball`s will remain as peaceful and undisturbed as ever...
Sadly for Dublin we shall now have to watch as T21 descends into a fudge of well meaning chaotic spending with little real focus.
The predominance of the Local Government machine has been underlined and Ministers need not fret over the Democratic Process being undermined.
The confidence which this Political elite possess is shown by the barefaced straight face on the Minister as he rubbed the good prof`s nose in his Political Litter Tray.
I predict a very well defined slide into T21 chaos as the power struggles continue and I will be as surprised as hell if we even get the Drumcondra Station Bus Interchange as far as a detailed drawing....
