Maybe David Pearson will relate the Texas experience - seems like they did a survey in the past 5 years based on license capture and, at some point, was talking with the ACLU. My opinion is that perception is everything - if the public thinks you are trying to be sneaky (even though you may not be), they will call you on it and you will get bad press/public opposition. If you coordinate with the local media and other agencies in advance, tell them why you need the data, tell them how you plan to protect privacy, it seems like you might get a better reception by the public. -----Original Message----- From: a1d08-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net [mailto:a1d08-news-bounces@chrispy.net] On Behalf Of Todd Ashby Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 1:27 PM To: Ed Christopher; Elaine Murakami; Jonette Kreideweis; ABJ30 Members List Subject: RE: [ABJ30] external travel surveys We are in discussions about doing an external survey here in KC and have had the same concerns brought up. May look at license capture. Anyone done one of those recently? R. Todd Ashby, AICP Assistant Director of Transportation MARC 600 Broadway, Suite 300 Kansas City, MO 64105-1554 816-474-4240 816-421-7758 (fax) tashby(a)marc.org -----Original Message----- From: a1d08-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net [mailto:a1d08-news-bounces@chrispy.net] On Behalf Of Ed Christopher Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 7:38 PM To: Elaine Murakami; Jonette Kreideweis; ABJ30 Members List Subject: [ABJ30] external travel surveys sometimes our surveys do not quite go the way we planned. -- Ed Christopher 708-283-3534 (V) 708-574-8131 (cell) FHWA RC-TST-PLN 19900 Governors Dr Olympia Fields, IL 60461 _______________________________________________ a1d08-news mailing list a1d08-news(a)chrispy.net http://www.chrispy.net/mailman/listinfo/a1d08-news