Seanad debates
Wednesday, 5 November 2003
National Development Plan Mid-Term Evaluation: Statements.
Other Senators mentioned greenfield and brownfield sites around Dublin. Some were dealt with recently by Fingal County Council, including the Phoenix Park racecourse in my area. This included a plan for 2,500 houses and if the DTO had its way, up to 5,000 houses might have been involved. It is on a main corridor. It has 275 buses passing the site each day and it has an under-utilised railway line, yet some politicians from the area, for local political reasons, opposed it. However, they are the first to cry out for a DART style service or a suburban rail system or call for the metro to be extended to the area. If the metro, or a DART style system, is to come to west Dublin, or to the Kildare area, our densities will have to increase dramatically and people will have to accept that point.
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