Central Organisazion Transportation Planning
Although the
organization that reached this particular decision was disbanded, federal,
state, and regional officials, wishing to maintain the highly successful
participatory approach, institutionalized it into a Central Transportation Planning Staff under a state and regional Metropolitan Planning Organization.
This group of professionals works under a steering group and provides services
in systems analysis, design and environmental planning, policy and programming,
community liaison, and area coordination to a joint Regional Transportation Committee and its subarea forums and project committees. The aim of the program
is to have centralized decision making based on sound technical approaches
but, at the same time, to encourage inputs from well-informed citizens
and local communities
Citizen and
community participation is not a cure-all. Al! too often, administrators or
planners have attempted to generate support for their plans by paying lip
service to citizen participation while retaining the decision-making power.
Almost without exception, this approach has had disastrous results, because
such groups have rebelled against being used. The evidence seems clear that
those who embark on the "citizens' participation” route must be wholeheartedly
committed to it and be willing to accept not only inputs but even major changes
in their proposals.
There are numerous examples of successes and failures of citizen and community participation in the literature Many of them indicate that it is difficult to gain attention unless the impacts are large and negative, can be directly identified, are concentrated rather than diffuse, are short-range rather than long- range, and create threats or a feeling of being victimized.
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