Address by Federal Highway Administrator F. C. Turner, before Annual Convention American Association of State Highway Officials, Fontainebleau Hotel, Miami Beach

Unfortunately, these days, much criticism is being levelled from all directions at highway planning --or rather, what is alleged to be the lack of it.I say "unfortunately" --because these charges simply are not true.Still, it is a fact that in many of the legal actions being pressed in courts around the Nation it is charged that there have been inadequacies in highway planning.Then, too, we hear it asserted that highway planning goes forward without accompanying land-use planning or that it is done in a vacuum, without regard to other modes.There are many more similar charges and I am sure you are familiar with them.However, these critics are either misinformed --or they are uninformed.To put it bluntly, they simply do not know what they -more -U.