Connecticut DMV Says Stay Away Today

According to the News Times, if you were considering a trip to a CT DMV facility today, you should rethink that. 

The paper says that computer outages have been experienced all throughout CT DMV offices. Computer problems have been a major issue for DMV since switching computer systems last year.

I had to go to the DMV in Danbury in the fall to return some plates. The line was out the door, and, as I got close, a man looked at me and said, "Welcome to hell." I kid you not, those were his words. Thankfully, because it was only a plate return, it took only 30 minutes. But on a normal day, that should be five minutes tops. Another man told me he was there the day before for six hours.

I do not get our government. It has been no secret that the DMV is one of the most unorganized, inconvenient operations in our country. This has been going on for as long as I have been alive, and I bet even before that. So, if we know it is a terrible problem that screws Americans up at least one day out of every year, then why not fix it? It is a broken system. Any place that allows people to cut in line because they had the wrong forms is a mess. They had the wrong forms because finding the right ones is its own convoluted mission. Get yourself together, DMV, and get back to us when you have it right.