Originally Posted by
Nightshade
Allow me to point out that all of these bicycle license or plate plans were before large numbers of bicycles and were costly all manual plans before computers ran everything.
Queensland in 2002 wasn't. Their plan was to register cyclists and use the money to pay for bicycle infrastructure. Like all the others, the idea was dropped as soon as the bean counters looked at it.
EDIT: And neither was the proposed California plan of 2004 from memory.