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The FHWA and FTA provide the following guidelines for designing a public involvement program in their 2002 publication Public Involvement Techniques for Transportation Decision-Making: • Act in accord with basic democratic principles by providing opportunities to debate issues, frame alternative solutions, and affect final decisions. Agencies accomplish this by sharing the details about their plans, attempting to reflect the goals of the community, and engaging the entire community.
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At best, this reduced them to reactive consideration. The goals of this booklet were to do the following: • Increase awareness of the effects of transportation actions on the human environment, • Emphasize that community impacts deserve serious attention in project planning and development commensurate with that given the natural environment, and • Provide some tips for facilitating public involvement in the decision-making process.
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As a result, they may have little or no understanding of life from the public's perspective, as they lack any frame of reference. This disconnect often causes public involvement plans and activities to be designed and constructed that do not address the public's life and work schedule, cultural background, religious beliefs, or other social or economic norms.
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