Ramgoolam announced a fee for personalized license plates

12 years, 11 months ago - 21 April 2011
Ramgoolam announced a fee for personalized license plates
Prime Minister discussed the introduction of personalized license plates at the turn of a phrase on the standards expected by motorists. Although the law exists for those who flout the regulations, it provides for others.

The authorities have not yet managed to find the record of license plates to British standards, the Prime Minister announced the adoption of personalized plates. Speaking at the opening of a new road linking the village of Mare-d'Albert to that of Gros-Bois, he suggested that the government has previously reviewed this project and that such a system will pay off.

"You know, I lived in England.If someone called Anil, it may use the letters A, N and the number 1 before adding an L," he told his audience in a playful tone. He has seized the opportunity to revisit the controversy surrounding the final settlement agreed by the Department of Transportation about the new plates and was quickly shelved.

The head of government said the new plates apply to new cars but only gradually, the law must be respected by all. Although the law makes mention of the standards to be met for the inscriptions on the plates, he castigated those who personalize their changing figures so that they resemble letters, as well as announcing the new laws will be voted for condemn ...

Commenting on an episode of the time of his father, he expressed the need to respect the rules of safety for motorcyclists. And to confess that at that time itself has not made much of the regulations. "When I was young, I was not a saint, I was rather turbulent ...", he said, indicating he was arrested, while his father was prime minister at a checkpoint on his bicycle because he had no headlight.

Navin Ramgoolam also spoke about the importance of strengthening the technical control - "fitness test" - vehicles. He announced the creation of a Traffic Model Village in Rose-Belle and said he chose this village because of the accident in 1975 when a truck killed five people because his brakes no longer met.