" Transportation Commission unanimously approves
new general-issue license plate design "
AUSTIN - The Texas Transportation Commission
agreed Thursday with the voters by unanimously approving the Lone Star Texas
design as the state’s new general-issue license plate.
The plate, which took the top spot among five
design selections in an online vote earlier this month, features the big Texas
sky with wide brushes of blue and red, the familiar Lone Star, and the mountains
of West Texas. The plate design received 455,878 of the more than 1.1 million
votes cast.
"As one of the online voters told us, this
license plate design shows the majesty of our state, and we agree," said Hope
Andrade, interim Transportation Commission chairman. "We feel honored to be able
to give Texans the plate of their choice."
By law, the Transportation Commission must
approve the state’s general-issue license plate, but commissioners wanted to
hear from Texans and authorized the first online design selection in the state’s
history.
"It was wonderful the way Texans embraced this
opportunity," Andrade said. "People were talking about the e-Vote at their
places of work, in classrooms and with their families."
Almost 10,000 Texans sent e-mails explaining
why they voted for a particular design, and many of them thanked the Texas
Department of Transportation for allowing them to be a part of the license plate
selection.
"The commissioners appreciated all of your
e-mails, the thoughtful and often heartfelt expressions of why you selected one
design over another," Andrade said. "While many of you expressed your
appreciation to us, we are the ones who want to thank all of you for
participating in the design selection."
Manufacturing of the new general-issue license
plate will begin in early 2009. The new plate will feature seven-character,
alpha-numeric plate patterns. The new plate pattern is necessary because TxDOT
will run out of the current six-digit license plate number combinations by the
end of this year.
"Texas is a growing state," said TxDOT Vehicle
Title and Registration Division Director Rebecca Davio.. "We're home to a
thousand new people every day, and that means more cars, truck and buses on our
roads. You often hear TxDOT talk about that growth in terms of road capacity,
but it affects everything we do from transit to maintenance to the license
plates we all put on our cars."
The Texas Department of Transportation -- The
Texas Department of Transportation is responsible for maintaining nearly 80,000
miles of road and for supporting aviation, rail and public transportation across
the state. TxDOT and its 15,000 employees strive to empower local leaders to
solve local transportation problems, and to use new financial tools, including
tolling and public-private partnerships, to reduce congestion and pave the way
for future economic growth while enhancing safety, improving air quality and
increasing the value of the state’s transportation assets. Find out more at
www.txdot.gov
Source: [ ntxe-news ]
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