Share the Road Plates!!

[imdeanna]

Check out the new vehicle license plates available in Oregon:

Fees from the plate Go To: Bicycle Transportation Alliance and Cycle Oregon

[coyote]

That is totally awesome. I wish AZ would do that too. Are you getting one?

[imdeanna]

That is totally awesome. I wish AZ would do that too. Are you getting one?

OH YEA!! they are ONLY an extra $10 for 2 years!! and the 10 bucks goes to great Bicycling causes!!!

[mimitabby]

that's a beautiful license plate. Washington has them too but i think yours are nicer.

[imdeanna]

that's a beautiful license plate. Washington has them too but i think yours are nicer.

Wow.....I looked up Washingtons.... Me Likey!!!

[smurfalicious]

Oh my gosh my truck is still registered in OR, but I really need to get my CO plates *sigh*. Oh that would be so sweetly ironic to finally get past the ego pig guys around here who look back at you on suburban roads with mile-wide bike paths and center medians, and continue to ride on the freegin line or in the lane.

[pll]

Colorado also has Share the Road plates (check http://www.revenue.state.co.us/mv_dir/wrap.asp?incl=registrations/plateindex):

If only Illinois had those...

[IFjane]

Virginia has them too, though I like CO's the best...

[pll]

On a semi-related issue (sorry for the hijack), does anyone have an LBS that sells "share the road" license plate frames?

[Mr. Bloom]

Kentucky has some really cool ones...anyone with pics? Makbike?

[pll]

The wonder of Google ("state name " license plate searches lead to sites like: http://mvl.ky.gov/MVLWeb/PIServlet)

[smurfalicious]

The Colorado one would be super cool if it the road didn't just abruptly stop at the bottom of the mountain. That guy is thinking "Awwwwwwh! I really did ride to the ends of the earth and I have way too much speed to stop now!!!"

[Aggie_Ama]

Texas has them. I actually don't like that it is obviously Lance because he is the reason everyone in their huge trucks thinks we are clogging the road. They always say "who do you think you are, Lance?" Plus they are $75 and the state is notoriously slow for actually getting funds to the organization they benefit. Some claim they have never seen money from the vanity plates.

I prefer my "Please be kind to cyclists" bumper sticker.

[Bad JuJu]

Here's Florida's:

[ATL Laura]

Here is Georgia's...

[Blueberry]

NC does have a share the road plate, but it's my understanding that the funds are regularly raided for other things. I certainly wouldn't mind giving $$ to the cycling organizations, but I'm not a fan of providing DOT with extra $$.

CA

[Susan126]

On a semi-related issue (sorry for the hijack), does anyone have an LBS that sells "share the road" license plate frames?

My LBS did not have any of these frames but I found them online:

Share the Road Bicycle License Frame (http://www.bicycleposters.com/main.html?content=http%3A//www.bicycleposters.com/LPF_1.html)

and Amazon even has one:

And here is Amazon's Share the Road Bicycle License Frame (http://www.amazon.com/License-Plate-Frame-Share-The-Road/dp/B000AOA7B8)

There were a few other places too.

Sue

[imdeanna]

[QUOTE=Aggie_Ama;324949]Texas QUOTE] http://forums.teamestrogen.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=6192&stc=1&d=1212629439

LOL Love the 'Share the road y'all'



(slight side note:) I just added "You'd be hotter in a helmet" sticker to my car :)

[bmccasland]

Louisiana has lots of vanity plates. But none for bicyclists. There is one for Motorcycle Awareness.

Pooh for us.

[wackyjacky1]

I paid $30, not $75, for mine. ($30 over and above whatever your regular registration fee would be.)

http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc71/wackyjacky1/special_plate_image.jpg

[Aggie_Ama]

I paid $30, not $75, for mine. ($30 over and above whatever your regular registration fee would be.)

http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc71/wackyjacky1/special_plate_image.jpg

Oops! It is $75 to register a truck in my county. Once I heard TXDOT hadn't released the funds to the humane society two years after they were introduced I said no way.

[wackyjacky1]

Still TXDOT holds the money hostage, I say no way jose!
Didn't know about that part...still, I like having the plate because of the possibility that it's spreading a little awareness to other motorists.

Where did you get your bumper sticker (Please Be Kind to Cyclists)?

[Aggie_Ama]

I love the plates, I just got really teed off when I found that out. Maybe it has been resolved, this was two years ago when I was going to get the horned toad ones for DH.

It is a local campaign, they sell them for $5 through their site (bekindtocyclists.com). Also lots of the bike shops here have them for a $2 (I think).

[ginny]

I read this thread earlier today and as I was walking across campus to my car (no, I don't commute on my bike - 35 mi ea way is too long :() ... anyhoo, I saw the CO share the road plate. I had no idea we had that... it's so pretty!

[sundial]

Arkansas legislated against adding more speciality plates. I splurged on an ivory bill woodpecker plate and I call it my ASU peckerwoods plate. :D
Dumb NCAA rules.

[SlowButSteady]

I collect license plates...

I have one of the TEXAS share the road ones on my front (the front of my truck, that is).

But I'm anxiously awaiting the release of a DOT issue Parrot Head plate for my back.

[BabyBlueNTulsa]

Here is Oklahoma's! (me likey da blue!!!) :P

[Tri Girl]

Babyblue- where did you get that? Oklahoma Bicycle Coalition? I guess the tag agency doesn't know about it. Last time I went to get my tags I asked and they said there is no such plate. I'm mad now. ;) I wanted one so badly but they said "no luck."
Where do I go to get one of those beautiful plates???

[OakLeaf]

The graphic is okay...

http://www.bmv.ohio.gov/Images/SharetheRoad.gif

but...

"These plates cost an additional $15.00 annually plus the normal registration fees....Five dollars of the total plate cost is distributed to the highway safety fund to publish and distribute a booklet that instructs bicycle riders on the methods and procedures of riding bicycles on the roads and streets of this state in a confident, legal, and safe manner."

IOW, the state keeps $10.00 toward the general fund and/or cost recovery, and spends $5.00 telling BICYCLISTS how to ride - nothing toward constructing or maintaining safe routes, or educating motorists. :mad::(

[Tuckervill]

Well, except, there's not really a lot of money involved in selling those plates in the first place--the total proceeds would barely make a ripple in any state's highway fund. I'd be happier if the brochure were aimed at DRIVERS, though.

I don't buy special plates because my fifteen bucks would go farther with an actual advocacy organization anyway.

Karen

[imdeanna]

I don't buy special plates because my fifteen bucks would go farther with an actual advocacy organization anyway.

Karen

True!!

I guess, for me, it'll be used more of a visual to show that I support the cause....along WITH supporting the organization in other means....(raising money for organized rides etc etc) :)

[BabyBlueNTulsa]

Babyblue- where did you get that? Oklahoma Bicycle Coalition? I guess the tag agency doesn't know about it. Last time I went to get my tags I asked and they said there is no such plate. I'm mad now. ;) I wanted one so badly but they said "no luck."
Where do I go to get one of those beautiful plates???


I think you can still get them...I have wanted one too!! You need to be a member of the OBS, but then you can mail this application to the OTC for the tag. Its probably the only way to get 'em (by mail)

http://okbike.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=29

[TrekJeni]

Oakleaf -

I agree that it's a bummer that all of the money does not go to cycling related things here in Ohio, the $5 goes to printing the Street Smarts book that I give out at all of my Road 1 classes that the state mails us, free of charge. Regardless if they didn't give any money to biking, it's great way for me to get the message out.

As a cyclocross racer I've been trying to figure out what to personalize it with. I bought a two year tag two years ago and just opted for the cycling plate but didn't personalize it. This Septemebr, it's up again for renewal.

Jeni

LCI #1717


The graphic is okay...

http://www.bmv.ohio.gov/Images/SharetheRoad.gif

but...

"These plates cost an additional $15.00 annually plus the normal registration fees....Five dollars of the total plate cost is distributed to the highway safety fund to publish and distribute a booklet that instructs bicycle riders on the methods and procedures of riding bicycles on the roads and streets of this state in a confident, legal, and safe manner."

IOW, the state keeps $10.00 toward the general fund and/or cost recovery, and spends $5.00 telling BICYCLISTS how to ride - nothing toward constructing or maintaining safe routes, or educating motorists. :mad::(

[PscyclePath]

Arkansas legislated against adding more speciality plates. I splurged on an ivory bill woodpecker plate and I call it my ASU peckerwoods plate. :D
Dumb NCAA rules.

Way back in the '05 legislative session they approved a "pro-life" specialty plate, but balked when the other folks lobbied heavily to get a matching "pro-choice" plate as well. The end result of a great deal of hissing and cat-scratching is that Arkansas kept the plates it currently had, but any new plates will only get a little bitty sticker down in the bottom center of the state's standard plate, which is kind of a real pale blue with a diamond in the background.

We've been working a bit to lay ground for a Share the Road plate/sticker, but it will be the 2009 session before any of that will come up. And given our legislators, I'll bet a cold Dr. Pepper that none of those stickers will say anything about choice, if they never ever approve another sticker again ;-)

Me, the Big Red Truck wears a Game & Fish Commission specialty tag showing an Arkansas rice field & flooded timber with a mallard duck. The big-axxed woodpecker plate is pretty cool, too... but I already had the duck.