ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to illustrate the difficulties of aggregating preferences into something that can reasonably be called the will of the people, when no single party commands a clear majority in support of an alternative. The siting of the new main airport occasioned a lengthy process of planning and politics, indeed. Since the Airport Committee was appointed in 1968, the matter was more or less continuously debated for twenty-five years. Besides exemplifying the main characteristic of strategic voting, the quotation demonstrates how uncertainty may give opportunities for such voting. Moreover, Velsand draws on a problem often realized by the planners themselves; that is, the fragile link between planning and implementation. The increasing awareness of environmental qualities and living conditions in cities, combined with an emerging critique of planning on the terms of the motorists. Trude Torset for a student project at the Department of Transport Engineering, Norwegian Institute of Technology.
