For roughly a year now, lawmakers in one of the state’s southernmost districts have called on the Murphy administration to expand Motor Vehicle Commission services for the area. In Cape May County there is just one agency within a 60-minute radius. It is currently operating as a licensing center only and people cannot register a vehicle there, get license plates, titles or complete other transactions.
“To receive certain motor vehicle services our residents must travel to one of the following locations: Manahawkin which is 70 miles away, Turnersville which is 80 miles away or Runnymede which is 85 miles away,” said state Sen. Mike Testa (R-Cumberland). “So many residents have called our office to complain that they have missed work, lost wages, only to be told that when they get to a motor vehicle commission that they can’t be served that day or that they have to go to a different location.”
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