CLARION – Calling it a disservice to rural people, state Rep. Donna Oberlander (R-Clarion) stated this 7 days that she is co-sponsoring legislation that would force PennDOT to resume full products and services at its travel internet sites across the state, including those people in Clarion and West Kittanning.
Since the get started of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 20 travel websites have not only minimized hours but eradicated a variety of services. Currently, the Clarion and West Kittanning places are amongst the vacation web-sites that are only processing pictures for driver’s licenses. Inhabitants wishing to take driving checks or perform other driver or vehicle companies will have to journey to Punxsutawney or Butler.
“I obtain it incredibly annoying that rural citizens in require of several driver and car PennDOT providers, these as getting a driving check, ought to generate much more than an hour, and in a lot of instances, have required to choose time off of work or school,” Oberlander claimed. “This is primarily hard for citizens who could not have world-wide-web access or require something processed rapidly.”
Oberlander also said that PennDOT refuses to release a timeline of when the total array of services might resume at the travel internet sites. These sites are served by PennDOT team who vacation to the spots the moment or two times a week to present particular styles of companies, such as driving assessments or Actual ID.
“This administration proceeds to dismiss the demands of rural residents and sets up roadblocks for them hoping to obtain essential authorities solutions,” Oberlander included. “That’s why my colleagues and I felt it was time to force their hand by introducing legislation that would require PennDOT to open these web pages again up for all companies.”
Under the proposal, PennDOT would be required to reopen the websites to the operational degree that these web sites were at prior to the pandemic in just two weeks of enactment. The bill is predicted to be launched in the coming times.
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