The new plates, which feature a blue background with white lettering, were announced during the province’s budget last spring but only became available to drivers earlier this month.
“Ok, this was taken off duty in a relatively well-lit parking lot with my headlights on,” Koopman said in a message accompanying the image, which has since been retweeted more than 1,400 times. “Did anyone consult with police before designing and manufacturing the new Ontario licence plates? They’re virtually unreadable at night.”
In a statement issued to CP24 on Monday, the Ministry of Government and Consumer Services said that it did consult with key stakeholders, including law enforcement partners, to “test the readability, reflectivity and functionality” of the new plates.
Yes blue plates aren’t as visible. While I was relatively close behind - it was visible. As distance increased I could not see the numbers but I could read a white plate clearly.
So ugly
Yup, well thought design. Not. Ford is leading the thug life.
Would have thought this to be part of the testing process before production!
Waste of taxpayer money
That’s what happens when *leaders* don’t consult or ignore consultations they don’t like, don’t research or analyze and generally make non fact based decisions. Incompetence. FordFail
Going to get a lot of complaints from 407 ETR
Looking into. 😂😂😂😂😂. Everything he “looks at” is ruined. OntarioPCParty Vote of no confidence in your leader is expected by THE REAL PEOPLE OF ONTARIO Otherwise you should start looking for jobs now. Ontario will fix its mistake
How much did this cost? How much will it cost to remove the egg off of Ford's face?
fordnation 's company probably made money, off the taxpayer, to print these wasteful (sticker) plates and now his company will make more money printing new ones. Taxpayers will now get to pay for, 'looking into it', as well as new ones. OneTermParty
Does the government not know about R&D! They make a lot of stupid mistakes like this!
Breaking something that wasn't broke. Thanks Doug.
Why do you need to read it?
Good! Who needs to know anything about your business anyway? I’m going to drive around myself and be the judge!
There was nothing wrong with the design of the old plates.
Oh that's awful
Taxed to death You work, taxed You spend money , taxed And now these key stone plates What next?
This isn’t the first time Ontario has done blue plates.
They're all chipped and peeling off. They dont make em like they used to.
The first time I saw one of these new licence plates was tonight in a parking lot. The car was directly in front of me and I could not read the licence. Obviously Dougie's people made a big mistake with these.
How is it not clear that this wasn't always just a 'ha! Conservative Blue won provincial election and thus let's make a lasting history mark'...and also obvious right away that dark blue visibility is low in general?
Have to spend our tax dollars on something.
How does it get all the way to this point without anyone realizing this? The first one I saw was like this. It took me two seconds to see that these won't work. AND they were touted as being easier to see! How? How? How... Ridiculous.
They made the Ontario white. Why not the characters?
the_ref14
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I agree! Tough to report drivers when you can read their plates!
Hard to read? It was UNNECESSARY to change Ontario plates at all! Like every fordnation idea the end result is failure. What a joke.
You think?
This is blatant tory blue propaganda branding, that was the only priority when approving design. More tory blue to come.
Boo goo
Probably a business associate of the ford family. Don’t worry the provincial government will pay for it again and then raise taxes and make some more cuts to education and health care.
We should be able to fire politicians for incompetence just like we fire employees for egregious errors DougTheDisgrace fordnation
If you are directly behind a car with a new blue license plate it is impossible to read. However if you are in the lane beside you can read it quite clearly. This I observed last night on the 401 east bound in all cases ( 3 plates in total)
Ya sure. They are 'looking' into this the same way they 'tested' them.
Another fail by the government....
They are ugly!
I can't believe why they not experiment before
And how much money did this bullshit cost us? fuckfatheadford
Tax dollars
It’s true , there terrible
What a terrible colour scheme. I’m sure it has nothing to do with Ford’s friends and family being in the signs business
Another great job from FailNation fordnation
Of course the government jumps before investigating the best way. Just another failure from the Ford government!!
They can't even get a license plate update right? That should have been an easy slam dunk. At least the peeling plates where somewhat legible.
Experienced this last night. Could not make out a single letter or number. Perfect for crime!
fordnation There goes more money that could’ve gone to social services or education. what a waste.
I'm not even a Ford supporter but come on now people. They're only hard to read if 1. You don't have eyes or 2. You're blind.
I see nothing wrong here....Good luck trying to grab my plate number now after I brake check you and toss my empty beer can outs 🙂
Another 'improvement' brought to Ontario by Mr. Ford. Bye bye tax $$$.
Hilarious to see people pretending to care about the plates while trying not to sound political in agenda.
‘Looking into’ You just have to open your eyes 👀 This is scientifically known as a cluster-fuck
Abul_Qasims lol they figured it out !!
Wonder how they work out with the camera flash on the 40 or red light cameras?
You can’t even read them in broad daylight. What a waste of resources.
Yes true. Not legible. Who is the smart person who came up with this idea. This will make drunk drivers escape fast
Why they changed it at all !? just to showing that ' The province is -blue- right now' !!
If you voted conservative in Ontario last election, where are you now?
There goes more money that could’ve gone to education or social services.
Yes true. I have tried.
Waste of time and money!
Don’t they do a research anymore?
Doug Ford wasting taxpayers money one stupid idea at a time! His new slogan for Ontario Wasting your money
it would be so funny if someone for once tweeted a photo of a qtips box lol can you imagine that
Totally, saw one the other night and thought they forgot to put numbers on it.
Increase in sticker renewal cost ServiceOntario for this mess?
LOL. The money wasted on those stupid number plates is justifiable, but paying teachers more is not.
100% can’t be read the plate at night. Tested this theory out last night while driving ... neither me nor my teenager could read the plates of the person in front of us.
HAHAHAHAHA. FORD FAILURE
if they hired a proper graphic designer this wouldn’t happen.
You definetly can't see them at night. MTO must stop issuing them immediately until the problem is fixed. For the good of Public Safety & Police Officer safety
And they are just figuring this out typical Doug Ford why wouldn’t you check that before?
What happened to good-old-fashioned “quality testing” before they rolled it out?
Genius
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA fordnation HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Transportation Minister should be fired .... Simple ..... And remove those useless plates out of the roads asap.....thank you
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