Nevada

[cl94]

Perhaps Nevada's first toll road will be toll lanes in the Las Vegas area.

You'd have to get us to have license plates first.

I never understood how the lack of license plates in Nevada and California is so widely accepted.  I was surprised California actually enacted a temp tag law.

LVMPD just doesn't bother enforcing it (sheriff says it's not a priority), and I get the impression that NHP considers Clark County more or less out of their jurisdiction (I think I've seen one state trooper in the past year). DMV supposedly has a uniformed service that solely enforces DMV-type things but I've never seen it.

NHP doesn't give a crap about it up here, either. They and the locals have far more things to deal with, like the idiots street racing. They clocked someone going 125 on a surface road not far from me last month. How they managed that in the middle of the day remains a question, but I saw the guy pulled over while driving in the other direction and wondered why he was doing the line walk.

[Scott5114]

NHP doesn't give a crap about it up here, either. They and the locals have far more things to deal with, like the idiots street racing.

Yes, that's what Metro says too. Street racing is a problem here too, as well as whatever you call it when a bunch of people block off an intersection so they can do donuts in the middle of it with their fancy cars. (Somehow, Metro can't solve either of these problems, either.)

[roadfro]

Perhaps Nevada's first toll road will be toll lanes in the Las Vegas area.

You'd have to get us to have license plates first.

I never understood how the lack of license plates in Nevada and California is so widely accepted.  I was surprised California actually enacted a temp tag law.

LVMPD just doesn't bother enforcing it (sheriff says it's not a priority), and I get the impression that NHP considers Clark County more or less out of their jurisdiction (I think I've seen one state trooper in the past year). DMV supposedly has a uniformed service that solely enforces DMV-type things but I've never seen it.

NHP doesn't give a crap about it up here, either. They and the locals have far more things to deal with, like the idiots street racing. They clocked someone going 125 on a surface road not far from me last month. How they managed that in the middle of the day remains a question, but I saw the guy pulled over while driving in the other direction and wondered why he was doing the line walk.

I've never understood this myself. I drive around all the time and see expired temp tags. I saw one not too long ago that was at least two months expired. These things have unique identifiers...you'd think the DMV would have some kind of follow-up to make sure these vehicles get registered.

I get that registering your car in Nevada is somewhat expensive (we gotta make up for not having a state income tax somehow...). But that's the price to pay if you wanna have a car here. And I always kinda wonder if these are people that also drive around without insurance...

[Plutonic Panda]

I'd say it's pretty bad in Oklahoma too. I can't remember any anytime I've ever gone out around Oklahoma City and haven't seen temp tags that haven't been several years at minimum expired.

[cl94]

Funny enough, I was stopped behind a car without any tags on my drive to work today. And this wasn't exactly a trashy neighborhood, either!

[Scott5114]

I'd say it's pretty bad in Oklahoma too. I can't remember any anytime I've ever gone out around Oklahoma City and haven't seen temp tags that haven't been several years at minimum expired.

Believe it or not, it is actually worse in Las Vegas (and apparently in Northern Nevada too). Seeing a car with no license plate at all, not even an expired one, is a near-daily occurrence.

[gonealookin]

This sounds like a traffic headache for the next two summers on US 50 on the east shore of Lake Tahoe (April through October 2025, and again April through October 2026).  As I've mentioned here before, the only access to my subdivision is off that highway.

https://www.dot.nv.gov/Home/Components/News/News/8410/395

The Nevada Department of Transportation is advising Tahoe motorists to prepare for lane reductions beginning April 21 on the U.S. 50 Tahoe East Shore as a two-season highway repaving and improvement project launches.
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The project will resurface just over 13 miles of U.S. 50 from the Spooner Summit Trailhead near the U.S. 50/State Route 28 intersection to the Nevada/California border at Stateline.
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Three inches of aging roadway surface will be removed and replaced with new asphalt.

There are a number of other improvements planned besides the full repaving, but conspicuously, "The resurfacing will not reduce the number of highway lanes and will not include major turn lane or intersection reconfigurations."  A road diet was proposed for portions of the highway, reducing it from two through lanes each way to one lane each way + center turn lane + bike lanes, but community opposition was so vehement that NDOT withdrew that proposal.  In addition, a roundabout has been floated to replace the current T intersection at US 50/SR 28, scene of some nasty T-bone crashes, but the roundabout is specifically not a part of this project.

[cl94]

It appears that the Nevada camera enforcement bill has once again died in committee. https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/nevada/red-light-on-traffic-camera-bill-in-legislature-3351276/

[Plutonic Panda]

 

[moabdave]

I've never understood this myself. I drive around all the time and see expired temp tags. I saw one not too long ago that was at least two months expired. These things have unique identifiers...you'd think the DMV would have some kind of follow-up to make sure these vehicles get registered.

From memory, it wasn't always like this. The DMV had a botched computer upgrade years ago (I want to say late GWB years or early Obama years) and the state had no choice but to accept people driving with expired licenses and registrations while the kinks were being worked out. (I remember people complaining on talk radio and letters to the editor, etc. about how the state is saying "don't worry all Nevada Police depts. are aware of the problems with the DMV upgrade and know to be patient" but that does nothing for people who had expired licenses,plates, etc. driving in other states.) But Nevada never seemed to recover from that, even though that upgrade was years ago and the DMV has operated relatively smoothly since. It just suddenly became accepted to see cars with expired registrations on the road.