Pay-By-Plate is really a nationwide license plate tracking system created by AECOM & DHS

MassPrivateI

It was about two years ago, when news broke that DHS was creating a nationwide license plate tracking system and not long after, they claimed to have cancelled the project.

Don’t believe everything you read…

Last month, I warned everyone that DHS was working with states across the country to phase out vehicle registration stickers and use license plate readers to track everyone.  

Pennsylvania DOT Secretary Leslie Richards reveals the real reason states are getting rid of registration stickers…

“Law enforcement will be able to do a much wider capture of license plates than they could in the old-fashioned way where they had to physically look at and read them.”

DHS is also using Pay-By-Plate (PBP) to create a nationwide license plate tracking system.

A few years ago the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) began working with a former oil company called AECOM Technology Corporation (AECOM) to create a PBP tracking system on the Tobin Memorial Bridge.

By the end of 2016 DHS/Police will track every vehicle across Massachusetts when the I 90 Turnpike PBP tracking system is scheduled to be up and running.

AECOM’s stated mission is to convince the public that a national PBP tracking system is a good thing!

AECOM’s mission…

“Goals are to direct or oversee AECOM national tolls projects and development efforts, and support the toll industry in its continual efforts to modernize, economize and increase public acceptance as tolls grow dramatically in North America…”

To increase public acceptance of more surveillance, the government always uses the tired old excuse, it’s for our safety. AECOM and the MassDOT are using scare tactics to promote a nationwide PBP tracking system.

Page 6 of AECOM/MassDOT’s report, shows pictures of toll booth accidents as a reason to get rid of toll booths and implement a PBP tracking system.

Only near the end of the report, on Page 16 does one find out what the PBP tracking system is really  about.

Under the AETS Roadside and Host Section, AECOM declares, it’s all aboutALPR/Fingerprinting, otherwise known as Automatic License Plate Reader Fingerprinting.

As if tracking everyone’s license plate isn’t bad enough, states have begun forcing bad drivers to display “special license plates.”

At least twenty one states have introduced legislation to require “special license plates” for bad drivers.

AECOM’s Manager Toll Advisory Services and Highway & Roads departments are dedicated to creating a nationwide PBP tracking system.

The cashless toll tracking system is already in use in seven states.

Soon it will become impossible to travel without DHS/Police tracking our every movement!

Drivers call the PBP tracking system a government run loan sharking operation.

David Babb of Lynn, MA says he went over the Tobin Bridge about four times last fall. At $3 a trip, he expected a bill for around $12.

“When the first bill came it was $250. It also said it was the third bill that they sent. It was the first one I ever received, I think it’s ludicrous” Babb said.

Babb appealed, but the appeal was rejected by MassDOT, the state’s department of transportation which oversees the tolling system. While he was appealing he got another bill, this time for $899.

“This is loan shark stuff,” he said.

Mina Kroij of Lynnfield had a similar experience.

When she got her bill, she thought it was a scam.

“It was $1,500 and they told me that if I don’t pay, they are going to stop my registration. I don’t know how they get away with it,” she said.

Who is AECOM?

AECOM was paid $16 million to build DHS’s headquarters in Washington DC.

“Tishman-AECOM, a joint-venture of Tishman Construction Corporation of Washington DC and AECOM announced today that they have been awarded a $16-million federal contract.”

“The indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract covers construction-management services for Phase 1 of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) new headquarters at the former St. Elizabeths psychiatric hospital campus, a National Historic Landmark in Washington.”

Fyi,  AECOM acquired Tishman for $245 million.

AECOM makes no attempt to hide its relationship with DHS…

“Through our work on behalf of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), AECOM has acquired unparalleled experience in disaster-response planning.”

For those of you who don’t know, FEMA is part of DHS.

“Following 9/11, we became one of the foremost providers of first-responder training and exercises, as well as community response plans, to help prepare for man-made and natural disasters. We are a leader in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security national Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program…”

AECOM is also creating the DHS Eagle II.

The DHS Eagle II is a Multiple Award, Indefinite-Delivery, Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) contract to provide information technology. DHS Eagle II also provides a broad range of IT support services to all US Citizenship & Immigrations Services.

Conclusion; DHS is using state DOT’s and private corporations to create a nationwide license plate tracking system.

http://massprivatei.blogspot.com/2016/03/dhs-and-aecom-are-creating-nationwide.html