The planned redesign of Alberta’s licence plates has been stopped, premier Jim Prentice announced Thursday afternoon, with the province sticking with the current design.
“This is Alberta’s new license plate,” Prentice said , while holding up the familiar red-and-white plate.
In July, the government announced that for the first time in 30 years the province would get new licence plates.
Albertans were asked to vote on a new design, which did not include the current “Wild Rose Country” slogan.
However, the three designs that were released — all given to the provincial government for free by the American multi-national 3M — were quickly met with controversy.
Many people were frustrated the government didn’t invite Alberta designers to submit their vision for the licence plates, something Graphos president Laurier Mandin called “the motivating insult.”
A graphic design firm in Edmonton was so underwhelmed by the proposed designs for the new licence plates that they even decided to make their own.
“Albertans have spoken very clearly,” Prentice said Thursday. “There will be no more work on the redesign of the licence plate.”
He suggested that “not much money” has been spent on the redesign so far.
One of the reasons behind the redesign was to increase visibility for police. Prentice says the government will work with law enforcement to make the current plates easier to see.
Source:: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-licence-plate-redesign-scrapped-1.2770710?cmp=rss
