It now costs you 12 dollars more to renew your Ontario licence plate sticker than it did in August.
As of midnight, September 1, the price to renew a licence plate sticker in southern Ontario is $120 for one year. That's up from $108.
Drivers, eager to renew their plates before the price increased, waited in long lines in Service Ontario locations on Wednesday. Others flooded the Service Ontario website.
So many people were online Wednesday afternoon, Service Ontario says the website experienced "technical issues."
Frustrated users were demanding an extension on the deadline but, as of Thursday morning, the price listed on Service Ontario's website was indeed $120.
The price to renew your plate sticker has steadily increased over the years. It was only $74 as recently as 2011. That's a 62% increase.
In northern Ontario, a plate sticker costs $60, up from $54.
The province attributes the rise to an increased cost to maintain highway infrastructure across Ontario.