Share the Road Plates!!

[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.
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...



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.

[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

[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...



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.

[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=c...d=12&Itemid=29

[PscyclePath]

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