Share the Road 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

[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)

[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.