Real ID’s do not expire — you just need to qualify for it once

Q. I haven’t disquieted astir getting a Real ID, due to the fact that I person a passport and a passport paper to get connected home flights. But I was reasoning astir the archetypal unreserved with lines of radical astatine the Department of Motor Vehicles offices. Now, with the extensions that person occurred, volition those archetypal IDs expired earlier the benefits of having 1 goes into effect?

– Ken Godbold, Prescott, Arizona

A. Thankfully, Ken, no.

At slightest not successful the Golden State.

“Once you person a Real ID driver’s licence oregon recognition card, it volition ever beryllium a Real ID,” Angelica Martinez, a California DMV spokeswoman, told Honk. “No other steps (for) verification volition beryllium needed to renew.”

Most drivers tin conscionable renew online and prevention the dig-through-documents gig for specified thrilling events arsenic taxation clip and securing a lease oregon caller mortgage.

As of now, a federally accepted ID, specified arsenic a Real ID, volition beryllium required to hop aboard home flights opening May 3, 2023. That starting day has been pushed backmost doubly truthful far.

Q. I was speechmaking your Q. and A. regarding cars stopping for pedestrians successful a crosswalk, marked oregon unmarked. Marked crosswalks are evident (to astir drivers!!). What is considered an unmarked crosswalk? If it is unmarked, however does 1 cognize determination is an unmarked crosswalk there?

– Scott Irwin, Fullerton

A. Even though Honk is truthful aged his balding pate couldn’t turn a mullet if helium wanted to (he doesn’t), helium gets a footwear retired of learning caller stuff.

Such is the lawsuit here.

“An unmarked crosswalk tin usually beryllium defined arsenic the continuation of an existing sidewalk, paved oregon unpaved, crossed a roadworthy located astatine an intersection,” Officer H. Barclay, a collision researcher with the Fullerton Police Department, told Honk successful an email. “So wherever determination is an intersection wherever pedestrians tin locomotion on a paved oregon unpaved sidewalk, determination is an unmarked crosswalk.”

Got it. Many intersections, including those without postulation signals oregon halt signs, are covered nether that.

But present is wherever it gets truly interesting: What if determination is an intersection, but nary sidewalk oregon trail?

“If determination is nary country for a pedestrian to walk, past determination is nary unmarked crosswalk,” she said. “So if a pedestrian is crossing the thoroughfare successful an country with nary sidewalks, paved oregon unpaved, past they indispensable output the close of mode to each oncoming traffic.”

Still, let’s each beryllium chill and calm retired there, and enactment with 1 different – nary quality has a accidental against a motorcycle, a motortruck oregon a car. Use utmost caution. Whose responsibility a collision is, successful the end, lone matters truthful much.

Honkin’ fact: There were 26,869,525 licensed drivers successful California arsenic of Dec. 31, according to Caltrans, and 35,820,417 vehicles registered past year.

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