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DMV: The beat goes on

| October 14, 2018 1:00 AM

My daughter is getting her first driver’s license — well, trying. Within 8 minutes of opening there were 41 people and an estimated 5-hour wait per the sign on the computer. Elderly people with no computer knowledge are assisted in the computer sign in by other customers in line. They have five windows, but only three seem active. This my daughter’s fifth time trying to navigate a broken system.

Also those in the PST lose an hour of services because Boise in MST closes an hour earlier and certain information cannot be accessed. So that’s six visits.

Who is to blame? Some incompetent bureaucrat?

Due to no way to communicate with DMV as they don’t answer the phones, people with disabilities can’t get ADA accommodations. Even the disabled can drive or need state ID cards.

Could this old railroad poem apply to the sheriff?

I’m not allowed to drive the train.

The whistle I can’t blow.

It’s not my place to say how far the train’s supposed to go.

It’s not my place to shoot off steam,

Or even ring the bell.

But let the train jump the track and see who catches hell!

RANDY TETZNER

Coeur d’Alene