Citizen participation and the citizen's viewpoint. Paper presented at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Highway Research Board HRB, Washington, D.C., January 1973.

A case is described where an organized and articulate community group obtained court injunction against further land acquisition. The locus of planning the Georgia Department of Transportation is identified and the creation of the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority and the Atlanta Regional Commission is outlined. The constituent groups of the Atlanta Coalition on the Transportation Crisis are described and their activities and accomplishments are reviewed.