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and long term objectives. This compensatory ability to divide and
unite is clearly revealed by recent measures intended to alleviate Mont-
gomery County's traffic problems. The Federal Bureau of Public Roads
has proposed an extensive study of the county's traffic congestion
which should culminate in a plan to provide broad relief. However,
the ambitious scope of this project has the disadvantage of a com-
mensurate time delay. Therefore, the State Road Commission has
decided to undertake an extensive survey of the 1-70 corridor. The
limited thrust of this study will expedite the development of interim
relief measures. The State study will alleviate immediate traffic con-
gestion along the 1-70 corridor, while the Federal study will enhance
the total county's transportation system. Each effort will provide a
necessary contribution according to its scope and objectives.

The play and balance of interrelated factors is focused clearly in
the planning process where projects are coordinated with a stern sense
of priority. Highways are not built at the expense of a mass transit
system, nor are toll facilities developed that would inevitably compete
with free facilities, but each project is designed as a coordinate and a
complement.

These same elements of planning should be employed to develop
or redesign political structures. Each of the examples I have cited
clearly indicates the need to establish, within State government, a
Department of Transportation capable of marshaling the planning
resources of the numerous interrelated agencies so as to efficiently and
economically resolve regional and State logistical problems.

Maryland's new Constitution is essentially a plan, a blueprint, for
the political superstructure of State government. Therefore, the prod-
uct should give credence to the principles of planning. Where future
growth can be accurately anticipated, a political structure which can
responsibly develop it must be established; where future needs can
barely be apprehended, flexibility must be assured so that the political
forms — government, itself — may evolve rationally.

Solid, intelligent, realistic planning must direct all future State
programs. The health of Maryland's citizens must be insured through
the development of comprehensive air and water pollution abatement
programs. Planning is essential to reconcile enforcement powers with
compliance incentives, to not only eliminate present but prevent
future pollution.

Better and more educational programs are demanded by the public
and dictated by our sophisticated economy. Sensitive planning can