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How Florida got a "Share the Road" license plate

Submitted by Brent Hugh on Thu, 04/22/2004 - 4:37pm
The Florida Bicycle Association tells the story:
In 1992, Michael Koenig, then vice president of the first FBA, had a revelation. The thought of a bumper sticker to encourage drivers to share the road turned into thoughts of producing a specialty license plate—something more permanent and purposeful, something to help raise money to get the word out to share the road with bicyclists. . . .

Through the sale of the Share the Road specialty license plates, Bike Florida and FBA established mini-grant programs to provide funds to organizations throughout the state who are promoting bicycle and pedestrian safety programs. The mini-grants provide assistance to purchase equipment (such as trail signage, bike parts to repair educational bikes, etc.), printed materials (printing of safety information, trail maps, etc.) or other safety related projects.

Florida is still the only state in the nation to have a specialty license plate earmarked to promote bicycle safety.
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