Louisiana Plates.



 

I'll be adding to this as time goes on...

 

 

An old plate from way back.

Note the "Sportsman's Paradise" is stamped, not silkscreened.

 

 

"Sportsman's Paradise" again.

Silkscreened this time -- newer plates with the "Jazzy" state name. 

 

"Sportsman's Paradise" with the pelican.

These appeared when Kathleen Blanco was governor.

 

 

1803 - 2003: Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial.

 

 



1812 - 2012: 200 Years as a state.

 

 

1815 - 2015: Battle of New Orleans Bicentennial.

I hate the state name typeface. Very amateur.

 

 

Now if US states' license plates were like European countries',

this is what Louisiana's would look like.

 

Protect the Environment legacy plate.

It should be the regular plate!

 

Tow truck plates.

 

Univ. of Southwestern Louisiana plate.

 

 

Some Big Green Signs Using Some of My Suggestions.

Here are some big green signs using some of my suggestions.

Florida:

Louisiana:

New Jersey:

The County Road route marker is Chris Blaney's idea

Massachusetts:

More Louisiana Highway Signs.

I have two other schemes. One is a five-sided cutout shape with the point down, the other is knockoff on the Florida state outline highway route marker.

First the five-pointed cutout scheme.

Purple, gold and green: Mardi Gras colors.

This can be for primary State Highways.

And this can be for the secondaries.

Now the state outline scheme.

This first one can be for the primary State Highways.

Again, Purple, gold and green.

This second one can be for the secondaries.

This third one can be for the Parish (County) Roads and State Highways given back to the Parishes.

Or, it can be used instead of the ones above for the State Highways.

And this is an example of a hyphenated route in the same colors.

More Louisiana Signs

Here are some ideas for a new color Louisiana state route marker sign. Presently the green-and-white ones are being replaced by black-and-white ones, and the route markers on the overhead directional signs have microscopic typeface! 

Credit: Codyg1985 at aaroads.com forum

The offence is on an overhead signbridge. 

Note the sign on the left is a "double Clearview." 

It directs to Clearview Parkway, and the typeface is Clearview.

Now the closeup of the offence.

Look how tiny the typeface is on the sign!

Who can see the route number going by at 50 miles an hour?

Epic beancounting FAIL, Gov. Jindal!

Now I have some better ideas:

The first idea and the one I like best is to copy Quebec's designs but use purple, gold and green -- Mardi Gras colors!

This would be for regular State Highway routes.

Not Mardi Gras colors, but ----
this would be for County Roads including devolved State Highways.
Use Canary Yellow for the number for better visibility at night!

And these would be for the limited access State Highways that aren't interstates:

Rte. 25 (extended south) Lake Pontchartrain Causeway.

Rte. 3132 Inner Loop Expway.

Rte. 3139 Earhart Expwy.

I have some other ideas, too. Next post.

Welcome!

I used to send possible highway route signs to the owner of The Great International Highway makeover website, Mr. R. V. Droz, a while back. Well I found out recently that his email link at his website is inoperable. Rats. I hope it'll work well in the future. 

Well, here's a sample sign:

This one is based on a concept of a "Geauxpass" toll tags only toll collection system for the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway from Metairie to Mandeville in southern Louisiana. Of course, if one crosses without the toll tag the owner of the car will receive a bill for the toll plus a nominal handling fee. But then I think the color purple should be used for all toll roads, not just the toll roads and discrete toll lanes where there are no toll takers or exact change lane machines. The type face looks kind of like Clearview but it isn't. Can you guess it? It's on UK overhead directional signs on their motorways.

And here's an enlargement of the possible route marker for the road that crosses it.It's plagiaristically based on the Quebec Autoroute route marker design. Which I think is a very nice design for non-interstate freeways, expressways and tollways in North America. Kind of classy, I think.