New York is going blue and gold again after all. Sort of.
Under a revised license plate plan, the Daily Mail says, New Yorkers will be issued blue-and-gold plates for new vehicles come April 1, but can keep their old white Liberty license plates when renewing registrations.
[Greene County clerk Michael] Flynn explained that beginning in April, New York State will — for an open-ended duration — essentially have two types of license plates on the road, and suggested it is not improbable that once a sufficient majority of the plates on the road are Empire Gold, the state may determine that it is then time to become a one-plate state again, and require all Liberty plates to be replaced.
The original plan for replacing all plates in 2010 (and soaking all car owners for a $25 plate fee) drew so much heat that it was abandoned late last year.
