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NEW JERSEY More changes have come to the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission now that the agency has drawn backlash from lawmakers regarding a new round of site closures.
The changes come as Sen. Declan O Scanlon, R-Monmouth, criticized the Murphy administration following news that the Eatontown Motor Vehicle Commission site will be closed for two weeks after an employee tested positive for COVID-19.
O Scanlon said the Murphy Administration is relying on outdated, unnecessary policies when the Motor Vehicle Commission closes a facility for two weeks or longer after an employee tests positive for COVID.
Subscribe The fact that we are still somehow closing MVC locations for two weeks for quarantining and deep cleaning after one employee tests positive is absolutely outrageous, said O Scanlon. Nowhere is still observing such heavy-handed, unscientific policies . . . not Home Depot, not supermarkets, not car dealerships, not doctors offices, no
UpdatedFri, Apr 30, 2021 at 1:30 pm ET
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NEW JERSEY More changes have come to the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission now that the agency continues to deal with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
Brenda Sue Fulton, the chief administrator of the Motor Vehicle Commission, said the agency has overhauled its technical infrastructure to help move the vast majority of transactions online. Not that things are rosy, now – far from it. Not when six to 12 agencies are closed due to staff quarantines on any given day, Fulton told the state Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee on Thursday. Hearing that we are doing 20 percent more transactions than before COVID is no consolation if it s your appointment that was canceled.
3 MVC agencies closed, frustrating drivers whose appointments get canceled
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Three state Motor Vehicle Commission agencies that closed due to employees testing positive for COVID-19 at facilities in Toms River, Cherry Hill and Bayonne apparently caught some drivers who had appointments by surprise.
It may also have been the wording of alerts they received from the MVC that their appointments had been canceled due to an “unexpected outage/closure.”
An MVC spokesman confirmed that the outage was the shutdown of those three agencies due to the coronavirus and not because of a larger issue.
DMV did it again..
Did anybody else received this mail, this is the 2nd time DMV cancelled my appointment and now do I have to wait for another month to get the appointment? @NJ MVCpic.twitter.com/BmRTwuv9Ud Piyush Thakur (@piyush thakur15) April 20, 2021
Two New Jersey MVC locations will reopen from covid-involved shutdowns on Friday, Save Jerseyans, and one of them is a biggie: West Deptford, the only regional motor vehicle facility in South Jersey.
For weeks, Trenton was the sole southernmost option for state motorists in desperate need of specific important services (like curing a suspended license or registration). Rather than repurpose other South Jersey locations to help pick up the slack, residents living in the Philly metro counties and the Shore points were forced to decide whether to trek to the capital or journey to a North Jersey regional location.
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The end result: (more) long lines, lost works hours standing in those lines, and an all-around major inconvenience for thousands of South Jerseyans failed by their state government.