GAO Metropolitan Planning Organizations

[Michel]

Metropolitan Planning Organizations: Options Exist to Enhance
Transportation Planning Capacity and Federal Oversight. GAO-09-868,
September 9.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-868
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d09868high.pdf


Survey of Metropolitan Planning Organizations (GAO-09-867SP, September
2009), an E-supplement to GAO-09-868. GAO-09-867SP, September 9.
[Internet only]
http://www.gao.gov/special.pubs/gao-09-867sp/

[George Conklin]

Post by Michel
Metropolitan Planning Organizations: Options Exist to Enhance
Transportation Planning Capacity and Federal Oversight. GAO-09-868,
September 9.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-868
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d09868high.pdf
Survey of Metropolitan Planning Organizations (GAO-09-867SP, September
2009), an E-supplement to GAO-09-868. GAO-09-867SP, September 9.
[Internet only]
http://www.gao.gov/special.pubs/gao-09-867sp/

"Performance based" is not something planners want to hear. They are
press-release-oriented and push ideal-types and utopias, as the GAO notes.