Creepy surveys in the mail
AUSTIN — Did you drive on Interstate 35 in early September? Where were you going, and why? How many people were in the car with you? And by the way, how many people live in your house?
The Texas Department of Transportation wants to know — and a company it hired may have videotaped your license plate, then sent a survey to your home to find out.
The survey is being done in the name of sound transportation planning. Officials say the method has been used before in Texas and elsewhere. But it has some feeling uncomfortable and others crying “Big Brother.”
Wow, I am figuring since I haven’t gotten a survey yet I must not have driven past one of the cameras. I can’t imagine I would remember how many people were in the car or where I was going on any specific day a month ago but I know I would feel creepy about just being asked. Then again, I really can’t think of another way for them to collect the needed data.
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This “ALLIANCE TRANSPORTATION GROUP, INC.” handled my surveillance noting “Time sensitive material” ust below my mispelled name. A slick propaganda failure. Ha! The MACHINE wants to know “because the license plate was radomly recorded while traveling eastbond on Interstate 10, w. of San Antonio, w/in the past 2 wks”. “This is an OPPORTUNITY for me to provide critical info on my current travel patterns”. TxDot needs us to “help better plan for the future need of our state’s transportation system”. How about you take a moment to tell us TEXANS about the “WESTERN HEMISPERE UNION” of UTOPIAN reichmen have on their REAL NON-bid lease contract!