Where's our new license plates?

[Boblobla]

From the view point of creating more possible plates I am not sure why they wouldn't add a letter rather than a number.

[Rathji]

Originally Posted by Boblobla

From the view point of creating more possible plates I am not sure why they wouldn't add a letter rather than a number.

Letters are far too complex for Farmer Ed. He didn't want to have to sing the alphabet song over and over again, and decided to just look at his fingers.

[metallicat]

Shouldn't be wasting money on crap like this anyway. Who cares what license plates look like?

[ken0042]

Originally Posted by Boblobla

From the view point of creating more possible plates I am not sure why they wouldn't add a letter rather than a number.

That was my initial reaction as well. But perhaps they didn't want to do that as they would have to then look at all the letter combinations to make sure there weren't any rude letter combinations like "kkk" or "wtf", etc. Plus now we have gone to a couple of million combinations to 10s of millions; which is good enough for the short term.

Better to hold off on new plates until the rest of the economy stabilizes. I'd rather see them cut the funding to this as opposed to cutting back further on health care.

[burn_this_city]

[browna]

Silly and a waste of money scrapping this, at this point..the millions sunk into consultation over 18 months, shelved.

Optics here for sure, but honestly, the expensive work has been done...the administering of the changeover really has no extra waste of resources, and certainly relativley speaking to the costs already sunk in. You have to figure things were pretty much set to go late fall, with a new year unveiling..so why kybosh it last minute?

Surely the government isn't that paralyzed all of a sudden, and nor is this showing "priorities of the times"...as the large chunk of money on this project has been spent. The roll out both is the easy part, and whatever the extra costs are incurred by the government, are picked up by the person that wants the new plates (as previously, the new plates were to be free replacements).

I can't imagine the actual manufacturing process is much different or more pricy when slapping a new design/coat of paint on the same metal, and again, the choice for someone to pay for a new design or keep the free current one could be left up to the individual, since they were already at that final stage anyway.

As mentioned, phase them in at a slower rate/give people the option. If you want new plates next year or two, you pay for them, otherwise you keep your current ones until the government decides that everyone switches over in the next couple years upon renewal.

[Ironhorse]

[Dion]

[BlackArcher101]

Frig... I was actually considering a custom tag this year too. Now, not so much. Thanks Alberta Government!

[RougeUnderoos]

Originally Posted by I-Hate-Hulse

Looks like the new plates are dead. For all the time and money spent, we'll just add a 4th number.

http://www.calgaryherald.com/licence...336/story.html

Cool that they used the license plate from the Jackson 5's van in that article.

[MrMastodonFarm]

Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos

Cool that they used the license plate from the Jackson 5's van in that article.

That was good...