Q. Near an Orange County interchange there are commercial buildings that abut freeway K-rail and many times the sides of these buildings are filled with graffiti. Who do you contact to get that removed? It is not on Caltrans property. Do you call the city?
– Roy Reaser, Fullerton
A. You could, or just go ahead and tell Caltrans what you saw and it should lend a hand: The state agency’s online form is at csr.dot.ca.gov.
“If it is not in our jurisdiction, Caltrans tries to redirect the constituent to the proper agency, such as the city or the county,” Darcy Birden, a Caltrans spokeswoman, told Honk in an email. “Those agencies will also direct a constituent to Caltrans if the constituent reaches out to them about a location that is under Caltrans’ jurisdiction.”
Q. Hello Honk. My driver’s license expired on my birthday, and I didn’t find out until a store clerk asked to see it. I never got a renewal notice in the mail like the Department of Motor Vehicles says it sends out a couple of months before the license expires. I went onto the DMV’s website and it says licenses can now be renewed online. I made an account, but it says I can’t do it online. I’m not really down to go to a DMV office now during the pandemic. I’m very frustrated. Do you have a solution to my dilemma?
– Brandon Andersen, Huntington Beach
A. Honk suggests calling the DMV at 800-777-0133 to see if a clerk can help you, but expect to settle into a real comfy chair for a possible wait. Actually, you can request that a clerk call you back.
If you still can’t renew your license online, you’ll need to go into an office, the DMV told Honk.
There are a handful of reasons a driver might not be able to renew online. The other evening Honk and Brandon had a nice chat, and he said he hadn’t had a ticket in five, six years and has no health concerns, so such possible roadblocks aren’t in play here.
Honk thought being tardy on his renewal might have been the problem, but that isn’t the case, either.
“You can still renew online if you didn’t renew by the expiration date,” Nicholas Filipas, a DMV spokesman in Sacramento, told Honk in an email. “Customers have one year from the expiration date to renew online. If they miss that renewal window, then a visit to a field office would be required.
“(But) you are considered an unlicensed driver once the license expires,” he said. “So it’s the customer’s responsibly to renew their license or they might be cited.”
As to those notices, they are courtesy notices – state officials say if you don’t get one, you still have to get your license renewed before it expires.
If you do end up wading into a DMV office to solve the mystery as to why you couldn’t renew online – and more importantly, get your renewal – everyone there is to don face coverings and keep apart. Expect health-screening questions and a temperature check.
Honkin’ fact: One evening a half-dozen years ago, California Highway Patrol Officer Tino Olivera responded to a collision in North Tustin: A sedan making a right turn had hit a boy in his teens. Olivera’s partner talked to the driver who told him, “I didn’t see him.” The partner looked through one of the darkly tinted side windows in the front of the car, which were illegal, and saw why. “It was a minor injury,” Olivera recalled. “It could have been bad.”
To ask Honk questions, reach him at honk@ocregister.com. He only answers those that are published. To see Honk online: ocregister.com/tag/honk. Twitter: @OCRegisterHonk
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