;IE to be carved in three?
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1ELAND'S semi-state transport company, Coras lompair Eireann, loks set to be carved in three, with buses becoming the responsiility of a country bus company and the Dublin Transportation kutho rity.
Taoiseach (Prime Minister) :harles Haughey has promised hat the McKinsey Report on :IE's future will be published vithout undue delay. Last week, le told the Dail (Parliament) that he report is of such fundamen31 importance and significance at there must be a public derate before any final decision is nade.
Transport Minister Albert Rey'olds already has a copy of the eport which is believed to call or the division of CIE into eparate companies responsible or railways, country buses and oaches, and Dublin City Serices.
A task force is already at work, advance of the establishment of the Dublin Transportation Authority a body which, as originally planned, would not operate buses but would co-ordinate public transport and roads policy in the capital.
It has presided over the recruitment of 300 traffic wardens who started working in Dublin a month ago and have already operated a "blitz' against illegally parked cars. And a further sign of the new look to city transport has come with the completion of the first Bombardier double-deck buses which are painted green, rather than sand as before.
None of the new buses has yet entered service.