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My H2 registration is due this month, usually I mail-in but with the GAP moved up I did not want to take a chance with any issues so a trip to the new DMV by my house was in order - I've not been to this one yet, just opened.

There is an almost new Intel fab facility here they closed after only a couple of years - huge clean room buildings, massive! And next to them more new Intel admin and office space buildings - these are huge complexes. Anyway they sat empty after Intel left and El Paso County took them over just recently for administration, citizens services, motor vehicle stuff etc.

The other DMV offices around Colorado Springs were really nice and they did this one the same and better. They all have nice chairs, flat-panel TV's all around with news and other panels showing the numbers being called (a nice clerk hands you a computerized number when you come in). Panels all over showing numbers called and where to sit - you actually sit at an office type cubicle station and everything is handled there by one person (in California you have frigging lines for every little bit, usually you stand in line for hours only to find out you've been in the wrong line - then the process repeats itself).. Not here!

The have a new APP you can scan and it wifi's to your smart phone showing the wait times at all the other DMV's too! There's even a cafeteria and Starbucks here!!!!

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This is true. Where I grew up the hills were so steep and long, when your ball rolled down the hill you just said "screw it"...

The DMV process has improved in ca. It never looks like that though. We have nice weather tho .

It's good that you have a decent DMV near you, Barry. Here in very rural NC, it's contracted out. It's a small storefront in a shopping center, with two windows at a counter. Normally things go pretty well, but you need to get there 5 minutes before they open or you take your chances with a long line and no chairs.

The best setup I've experienced was at Merritt Island, FL. Rather than shuffle you around from window to window to do various tasks, this one let you do everything you needed to do at whatever window you were called to from the waiting area. In my case I was trying to get temporary registration for a vehicle so I could drive it home, and the previous owner had lost the title. This combination would normally have been a problem, but after hearing that I had flown to FL to get the vehicle and needed to get home to work, somehow (can't remember) the guy at the window figured a way to make it happen for me.

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If it surges, that's normal, upshift.

I keep my AAA membership just so I don't have to go to the Ca DMV.

I guess the picture is no good so here is the link, most of the stuff is online here:

http://www.trafi.fi/en/road/services/online_services

Most or all states have DMV web sites too. A few years back, I was living in MD and working in SC on a temporary job, and ended up staying much longer than expected. One day on the way home to work, I was stopped for having an expired license plate and given a warning. I went to the MD MVA web site, paid the registration fee, printed a temporary registration, and taped it in my rear window as directed. The cop that had given me the warning pulled up to me at a traffic light shortly after that and congratulated me on fixing the problem so quickly. I was driving my '73 van that a lot of the guys here have seen. It attracts some attention from the police at times.

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If it surges, that's normal, upshift.

Our DMV here in north Alabama have satillite offices in local grocery stores. Usually long lines, no chairs, but at least they're just down the street.

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