re: Inspection sticker/brake tag or front license plate?

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Ok. But there are still 3.8MM cars in Louisiana that would need another plate. I couldn’t find Louisiana stats, but Michigan prisoners make 2.5MM plates a year. They would have to make 1 additional plate for each of the 3.8MM people plus they would have to make double the amount of plates that they would normally make over that year and a half that it would take for them to make all the plates. I guess they could allocate more inmates to cut the time down some, but Angola is also a farm so something else would have to be put on the back burner.

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Just do a phase in.

Add the 2nd plate fee to all registrations and renewals, and all new vehicles sold after x date will have new plates. Older vehicles will be grandfathered in or you could require dealers to add it when it is resold and reregistered.

I guess toll operators and traffic camera operators want that extra shot of the driver and front plate to prove you passed the toll collection readers.

Now what would be nice is if they could add toll tags on the plate without having to affix it to a windshield. That way everyone’s plate is a toll tag. No more separate tags for the Causeway and LA 1 Bridge and future bridges like Belle Chasse and Lake Chuck bridge if that ever gets off the ground.

Also, Louisiana needs to join in with other states to allow Geauxpass users to use their tags in other states and Geauxpass will collect tolls from drivers with Texas Tags or Sun Passes.