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Taipei Times
Date: Mar 31, 2019
By: Ho Yu-hua and William Hetherington / Staff reporter, with staff writer
New Taipei City plans to temporarily halt the replacement of building number plates after
A woman in New Taipei City on Wednesday holds up a newly designed building number plate that was going to replace number plates throughout the city. The city government yesterday announced a halt to the replacement after the design sparked public criticism.Photo: CNA
a newly unveiled design met with public criticism, the New Taipei City Government said yesterday.
The New Taipei City Department of Civil Affairs on Wednesday unveiled the new plates, saying that the city’s 1.2 million number plates would be completely replaced by February next year.
The current green plates have been in use for 23 years, and many of them are faded to the point of being illegible, it said.
The new design implemented a two-color scheme — odd numbers in purple and even numbers in orange — intended to make it easier to differentiate between even and odd-numbered buildings, the department said. [FULL STORY]
