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– Bob Bergstrom, Fullerton
A. Sometimes, sure.
A state legislation is in play for buses, vans with workers apart from these within the cab, and a few business vans holding hazardous supplies.
“A faculty bus is required to cease except particular indicators exempt the bus from stopping that should be posted,” stated Sgt. Jeffrey Beaty, of your city’s Traffic Bureau within the Police Department.
And the particular indicators require leaping via hoops to get them.
Of course, it’s all about security.
The driver of affected automobiles should cease 15 to 50 ft from the tracks, look each methods and hear. Some such automobiles, in fact, wouldn’t be capable to cease actual quick.
“The legislation is guaranteeing that they’re crossing the tracks in a secure method,” the sergeant stated in an e-mail. “If a busload of individuals is hit by a practice, the casualties could possibly be devastating. The similar could be stated for hazardous supplies that might trigger an environmental catastrophe or probably injure or kill somebody shut sufficient to the spill.”
Why is it so troublesome to get the particular indicators put in? Honk tried to get a solution from state officers, however thus far has did not get one. If he does, he’ll return with a solution.
Q. We just lately obtained a Notice of Delinquent Renewal for our license plates and smog test on our automobile. No prior discover was despatched. This delinquent discover talked about a penalty of $77. When we went to AAA and paid the charges, together with the high-quality, we have been informed by the clerk that the Department of Motor Vehicles says it isn’t chargeable for letting us know when our registration tag expired! In our expertise, the DMV has been sending us notices prematurely for 60-plus years! We have since talked with a number of buddies who solely found they have been delinquent after they checked out their rear license plates and noticed that the registration tags had expired – one was late by greater than a yr! They had not obtained any discover from the DMV. None of us has seen or heard something a few change in DMV coverage.– Ginny and Wylie Carlyle, Irvine
A. Under the legislation, “the DMV is legally required to ship renewal notices a minimum of 60 days previous to the date the registration charges are due,” Ronald Ongtoaboc, a DMV spokesman, informed Honk in an e-mail.
But …
In the tip, automobile homeowners are nonetheless accountable to maintain present their registrations, he stated, “whether or not or not they obtained a discover.”
Ongtoaboc steered guaranteeing the mailing tackle is updated with the DMV, and he talked about that Californians can join e-mail notices as a substitute of paper ones.
A Honk daughter realized her driver’s license was expired solely when it was rejected for ID at a health care provider’s workplace. She instantly renewed it on-line.
Kind of the identical drill – the duty is the motorist’s.
“The authorized requirement to ship a driver’s license (DL) renewal discover pertains provided that a data check is required, nonetheless the DMV at the moment sends renewal notices to all prospects 90 days previous to the DL expiration date no matter whether or not a check is required,” Ongtoaboc stated.
HONKIN’ FACT: To offset the development of its toll roads, which embody the 241 and the 73, the Transportation Corridor Agencies has put aside 2,000 acres in 17 chunks in Orange County which might be to without end stay nature. One of these, the 23-acre Live Oak Plaza Conservation Area close to Trabuco Canyon, is getting weeded this month by cattle from 5 Bar Beef, an Orange County ranch, to, amongst different issues, shield in opposition to a wildfire.
To ask Honk questions, attain him at [email protected]. He solely solutions these which might be revealed. To see Honk on-line: ocregister.com/tag/honk. Twitter: @OCRegisterHonk
