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NEW YORK PLATES GOES BACK TO THE BAD OLD DAYS & IT'S GONNA COST YOU $10 MORE DOLLARS!

Lady Liberty and the red, white and blue will soon be purged from New York's license plates.
In their place, in a blast from the bad old days, will be the once familiar blue-and-gold ones.

And guess what, New York drivers: You'll be paying a bit more - $10 more - for plates that toss aside the patriotic tags.

It's all a gimmick to raise money for ailing state coffers.

The Department of Motor Vehicles yesterday unveiled the new plates - which look a lot like ones seen on the street in the 1970s and '80s.

They will generate $129 million in revenue over two years and will be issued starting in April for all vehicles with registrations expiring in May.

The gold-and-blue plates will be mandatory on all the 10 million cars, trucks, trailers and ATVs registered in the state.

And they'll cost $25 bucks - $10 more than now. Want to keep the plate number you have? - that's another $20.

In September, the state increased driver's license and registration fees by as much 25%.

It's part of a desperate attempt to fill the state's ballooning budget gap, now estimated at $3.2 billion. The Legislature last spring approved the money-raising scheme.

The new plate is dark yellow with blue letters and numbers in the central part of the plate.

There is a dark blue banner across the length of the top of the plate, with "New York" printed in gold in the center. "Empire State" is in dark blue letters across the bottom.

An upstate woman has started a petition drive to try to halt the change.

"I have a car, my husband does, my children do, so it's a big added expense even for our household," said St. Lawrence County Clerk Patricia Ritchie.

She said it's an outrage to ask families and businesses to pay more for new license plates they don't need. Nearly 57,000 people have signed an online petition at nonewplates.com.

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