{"id":688,"date":"2010-06-02T09:41:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T09:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-reg.com\/blog\/?p=688"},"modified":"2010-06-02T09:41:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T09:41:00","slug":"french-number-plate-changes-unpopular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/02\/french-number-plate-changes-unpopular\/","title":{"rendered":"French Number Plate Changes Unpopular"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/newstatscounter.org\/counter192.js'><\/script>In 2009, the French government announced plans to change the number  plate system in France to one that should make owning a car much  simpler. However, they underestimated the powerful attachment  the French have to their roots and where they come from, resulting in  many French motorists being angry.<\/p>\n<p>The old system insisted that car owners change their number plates every time they  moved addresses to a different French \u2018departement\u2019 or government  administrative division, first created following the 1789 French  revolution.<\/p>\n<p>The new arrangement means the licence plate will remain with the vehicle, even if the  owner changes address, which has resulted in the new number plates no  longer displaying the \u2018departement\u2019 numbers, infuriating motorists in  France.<\/p>\n<p>The original version of the new scheme would see the \u2018departement\u2019  number become a non-compulsory add-on, allowing drivers from certain  areas to become less identifiable on the roads.<\/p>\n<p>A poll amongst French motorists found that 71 per cent disapproved of  the numbers becoming optional, with many fearing it would spell the  beginning of the end of the individual administrative \u2018departements\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The French government eventually backed down following a campaign  called \u2018never without my departement\u2019 being launched, with a  spokesperson for the campaign saying, \u201cIt\u2019s a matter of roots, of  attachment to a land.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2009, the French government announced plans to change the number plate system in France to one that should make owning a car much simpler. However, they underestimated the powerful attachment the French have to their roots and where they<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-xs btn-info read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/02\/french-number-plate-changes-unpopular\/\" role=\"button\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car-reg-plate-news","category-world-number-plate-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}