Whe! l Tom L. arson asked roe r: o· morl~ race anci sununar 1.,., this session, he assurca me
tha all the panelis s would be in agreement and that it would be a fairly straightforward tas
kto synthesize the main thrusts of the panel. Fortunately, Larry Dahms has just disti. 11. ed
th. ls summacv and it would be redundant for me to attempt the same thing. Clearly,
transportation planners today are a disconsolate bunch of folks. Sy their own testimony, their
plans and their methods, if not themselves, are in disrepute. They stand indicted and vu …

The concerns of transportation planners, who in recent years have had to move away from
the center stage they occupied in the'60s and'70s, are addressed in this article. In this
unusual presentation, in which two transportation planners articulate their concerns in the
form of a dialogue, several noteworthy points are made. It is pointed outt that planners
should be aware that planning requires assumptions about the future, that forecasting can
be hazardous, and that over the past 30 years, transportation planning has had to be …