Reader gets registration-renewal notices years after selling truck

Q. Dear Honk, we sold our motortruck years agone – 10, 15 years ago. I don’t cognize what we did with the paperwork, but the Department of Motor Vehicles inactive sends america renewal notices for planned non-operation presumption each year; I sent backmost a renewal with a enactment that we nary longer ain that truck, but we inactive person the renewals. What should we do? Please help.

— Kim Le, Fountain Valley

A. A DMV spokesman, Ronald Ongtoaboc, has offered to measurement successful and help, and with Kim’s support Honk enactment them successful touch.

Honk isn’t definite what happened successful your case, Kim, due to the fact that if you completed and submitted the due paperwork, this shouldn’t person happened.

This is simply a bully clip to punctual all:

When getting escaped of a vehicle, you privation to implicit a Notice of Transfer and Release of Liability; you are expected to bash it wrong 5 days. That tells the DMV that you aren’t liable for aboriginal parking and postulation violations and civilian and transgression cases, Ongtoaboc said.

And you request to guarantee 1 much captious measurement is taken.

“The conveyance grounds is not permanently transferred retired of the seller’s sanction until the DMV receives a completed exertion for transportation of ownership and outgo of due fees from the caller owner,” Ongtoaboc told Honk successful an email.

Q. The northbound I-405 on-ramp astatine Culver Drive successful Irvine has been nether operation for amended than a twelvemonth oregon two, which reduces what utilized to beryllium 2 lanes to one. This causes a back-up connected Culver during greeting traffic. This agelong enactment of vehicles becomes a postulation hazard arsenic drivers, not wanting to hold successful the agelong line, effort to chemoreceptor successful person to the on-ramp from the mediate lane, which past gets backed up, too. As determination has been nary enactment connected this task for astatine slightest 3 months, I get the content that Caltrans has either forgotten astir it oregon believes it’s capable for Irvine residents and has assigned the operation unit to much important (in its eyes) projects. Can you cheque for those annoyed with this situation?

— Stan Jones, Irvine

A. Of course, Stan.

And you person helped springiness your chap motorists a acquisition during this vacation season.

“In effect to the reader’s question, Caltrans investigated the concern and decided to discontinue the usage of the ramp meters until operation is completed connected the on-ramp,” Nathan Abler, a Caltrans spokesman, told Honk successful an email.

Hopefully, that calms the postulation retired there.

That on-ramp starts disconnected arsenic 1 lane, rapidly converts to 2 lanes and goes backmost to 1 astatine the ramp meters.

That task began successful November 2020 and, delayed a spot by the upwind and supply-chain problems, is present projected to wrapper up by April 2022, Abler said.

The enactment volition amended lighting and the pedestrian way there, bringing that agelong up to Americans with Disabilities Act standards. A retaining partition is being enactment successful arsenic well.

In the past 3 months, Abler said workers person completed assorted aspects of the project, including pouring concrete, repairing the motorcycle way and putting successful traffic-control cabinets.

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