Concannon, T (2021) How does citizen involvement in the Irish planning system impact mega-infrastructure projects such as the Dublin MetroLink project? Pre-master thesis.
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The Dublin MetroLink is a mega-infrastructure project that aims to provide the city of Dublin in the Republic of Ireland with a modern underground rail network. As part of this plan, decision-makers intend to use a joint-investment opportunity in order to fast track implementation and to make it as cost-effective as possible for the Irish State. At this moment in time, the project is currently in the “pre-application” stage within the planning process despite the project having been first suggested in the early 2000’s. The plan is estimated to be completed by 2027 and will offer a long awaited public transportation connection from Dublin city to the airport. The paper aimed to discover how citizen involvement in major strategic infrastructure projects, like MetroLink, can impact the project itself in terms of progressing plans to the stage of implementation. From the use of media documents, academic literature and interviews with leading planning and transport experts, this research learned the importance of citizen participation. Despite the delays incurred due to continuous public submissions it was widely acknowledged that extensive communication with citizens is necessary to be successful in implementing mega-infrastructure projects in the long term. The research also discovered how private individuals make use of the judicial system in order to participate in the planning process. This aspect was looked upon less favourably by interviewees who felt that this route was over-used and burdensome to a swift planning process when abused.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Pre-master) |
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| Degree programme: | Society, Sustainability and Planning (MSc Socio-spatial Planning) |
| Supervisor: | Busscher, T. |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Aug 2021 13:59 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Aug 2021 13:59 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3644 |
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