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While here, you will learn about how the Transportation Secretariat ensures our Commonwealth has a safe and efficient transportation system to support and improve every Virginian's quality of life.
Agencies that are part of the Transportation Secretariat provide a wide array of products and services including road construction and repairs, rest area maintenance, regulating sea ports, airports and rail, and issuing license plates and driver's licenses.
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DMV Prepared for Service Restoration Thursday, September 2
The Department of Motor Vehicles will be fully operational on Thursday, September 2, 2010. DMV will have all hands on deck when computer service is fully restored enabling the processing of driver's licenses and ID cards in customer service centers. DMV is extending operating hours until 6 p.m. on Thursday, September 2, 2010 and Friday, September 3, 2010 at all 74 locations statewide.
Due to the emergency, DMV will execute the authority to issue licenses for up to eight years. As a result, the validity periods of most licenses and ID cards that expired during the service disruptions are extended by 20 days.
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Latest News 
The Virginia Information Technologies Agency continues to make progress in returning all state agencies to normal operating conditions in the wake of the recent disruption in service caused by the failure of a major data storage system. The initial failure affected 26 of the Commonwealth's 89 agencies and caused 13 percent of the Commonwealth's storage servers to stop working.
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The Northern Virginia Transportation Alliance, which is "the only organization focused exclusively on working to make better transportation a reality for Northern Virginia citizens and businesses", declared its support in a formal statement by past Chairman David Guernsey prepared for the Governor's Herndon town hall held on August 25
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