Saturday, June 21, 2008

Power Outage Temporarily Closes DMV Southwest and Georgetown Service Centers

(Washington, DC) The District of Columbia Department of Motor Vehicles Georgetown Service Center (located in the Shops in the Georgetown Park Mall—lower level) and Southwest Service Center (located at 95 M Street, SW) are temporarily closed for transactions due to a power outage that has impacted our central data center rendering computer related transactions inoperable. Technicians are on the scene and anticipate the data systems being operable by 11:30 am. Employees are on standby to open both Service Centers when the computers are back up and running. Both Service Centers were scheduled to open today at 8:15 am until 4 pm and provide driver license/identification card applications/renewals, vehicle registrations/renewals services.

The Vehicle Inspection Station (located at 1001 Half Street, SW) has been minimally affected by the data system outage. Customers will be able to have their vehicles inspected, but data printouts will not be available during this data system outage. The data printouts list the same information that the customer receives in their mailed notice for their inspection and vehicle registration renewal. The Vehicle Inspection Station opened on schedule at 7am and will be open until 3pm on a normal Saturday operating schedule.

The DMV regrets and apologizes for the inconvenience.

For additional information, please call the DMV call center at 311 (or (202)-737-4404 outside the 202 area code) or visit www.dmv.dc.gov.