Transportation Engineering Spproach To Public Transportation
An
alternative or complementary approach to public transportation hearings is to involve the
public from the time that planning begins. This approach, briefly summarized,
is as follows:
1. Seeking
out and soliciting the cooperation of public officials, influential
individuals, and business, residential, or conservation groups or organizations
that can speak for
the
community. Often a special staff is created to coordinate or carry out this
function. Some agencies maintain continuous liaison with local community
leadership rather than attempting to establish it when a project seems
imminent. Again, surveys to determine community attitudes may be structured to
identify informal as well as formal leaders. This approach is particularly
valuable where the degree of influence of certain vocal individuals is unknown.
2. Creating the opportunities for this community leadership
to participate continuously in planning, beginning at the earliest possible
time.
3. Developing skills to organize and use
constructive and continued participation of and with the public in group
meetings, workshops, hearings, and many other activities
A classic
example of a situation that led to an ongoing organization to promote citizen
and community participation has been in Boston. There, in 1969, a combination
ot neighborhood and environmental groups and advocacy planners challenged the
need or a section of the Interstate through downtown Boston. Based on the
recommendation of a blue-ribbon task force created to make a re studv. the
governor placed a freeze on highway construction inside Route 128, which
circles Boston to the west on roughly a 10-mile radius. This study, w'hich was
set up to be participatory but decisive, multivalued, equitable, and to involve
public participation by formal groups and in workshops, was established in a
state office responsible to the governor. Ten percent of the study tunds w'ere
allocated for community liaison, public participation, and technical assistance
for these functions. The final recommendation and result was not to build the
Interstate route and certain other highways but to expand transit. At the same time of authorized Interstate funds were transferred to the
transit program, as permitted by federal law
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