Fingal County Council presentation on Metro North June 15th 2011

Fingal County Council Meeting 15th June 2011

Item 36(c)Update on Metro North Project

Metro North

Founded on the principles of integrated land-use and transport planning that form the core of the National Spatial Strategy and

incorporated as a singular element of

Fingal County Development Plans 2005-2011 and 2011-2017;

Metro North

• Primarily driven for the economic benefit of the

Dublin City Region and thus for Ireland;

• Is cost effective in combining private and public investment;

Metro North

• Capable of delivering employment in advance of the acceptance of the main PPP tenders through the tendering of Enabling Works;

• Capable of commencement immediately providing up to 6,000 jobs directly and up to twice that amount at the height of the construction period; and

Metro North

• Placed to be a signal foundation project for Ireland’s recovery, both economic and reputational .

Strategic Planning

• Quality and coherence of public transport is a– quality of life issue, – integral to development capacity and relative

attractiveness of one city region over another

• The 10 highest-ranking cities in the world in terms of Public Transport are :

10 top Public Transport Cities1. Copenhagen, Denmark2. Hong Kong, China3. Tokyo, Japan4. Paris, France5. Amsterdam, Netherlands6. New York City, United States7. Havana, Cuba8. Barcelona, Spain9. Berlin, Germany10. San Francisco, United States

Observations

• All have Metro and Light Rail systems• All systems are integrated• Some are mega-cities – Hong Kong, New York, Tokyo, San Francisco

• Several are small– Copenhagen (2.45m), Berlin (3.45m), Barcelona

(4.2m)

All are singularly economically successful

Dublin Region Public Transport

Dublin Satellite Image today

Dublin Satellite Image

with the 1920s city map superimposed

- there was no airport in 1920

Dublin Satellite Image with the developed area shaded to compliment the earlier image

19th Century Rail Infrastructure - for a 19th century city

Luas Green line(old Harcourt St Line)

Luas Red lineTo Tallaght & City West

20th Century additions to Rail Infrastructure

Dublin rail and light rail transport map today

21st Century Rail Infrastructure - for a 21st century city?

Aris Venetikidis

Serving the entire city region

Fingal alone - With a population growth from 196,000 in 1996

to an estimated 263,000 in 2011

Suffers physical constraints for high-volume access to the city;Provides the most suitable location for sustainable development close to city and at the “doorstep” of Ireland in the Airport.

Serving the entire city region

Dublin City Region- Must have the capacity to deal with its own

economic development – e.g. 3rd level student numbers are expected to more than double by 2020.

This low-density city has the sole option of the poly-centric connected city as the model to sustain its growth and economic capacity to sustain its role as the economic engine of the country.

Strategic Planning

• Ongoing now for over 10 years, forming the baseline for economic strategies;– (Platform for Change from the DTO was published

in 2001)• Integrated Land-use and Transport is the only

model that is sustainable;• As a nation we cannot afford to abandon

strategically thought-out plans – the days of ad-hoc planning must be brought to an end.