Posted on 02/11/2012 11:15:05 AM PST by Daffynition
When lead-footed drivers get snagged and ticketed, their downfall might have been passing a speed trap where a cop was using radar or a laser, or maybe the driver passed a speed camera. However, as technology improves traffic enforcement, it is also progressing on the side of the speeder. Now joining the radar detector is crowd-sourced reporting of speed traps, a virtual warning system using the Internet and a mobile app.
This list of the 10 most-active cities for speed traps was compiled by Trapster.com, a community platform accessed online and via smartphone app, that alerts drivers to traps, hazards and other traffic issues nearby.
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If someone’s speeding in the first place, I’ve never understood how it can be a “trap.”
I would have guessed that one of the top 10 would have been in Georgia. On our last trip to FL we hardly even saw a State Trooper or a Cruiser until we crossed into GA, where they were wall-to-wall, and were writing tickets like there was no tomorrow! And when we crossed into Florida, you could hear the crickets once again.
Colorado Springs at number 9? That’s a laugh. Maybe at number 99, but not 9.
I lived there for more than 20 years, no speed traps, no undue pressure on motorists.
I suspect a ‘gay’ influence to the list. Gays hate Colorado Springs.
I drive thru it so often that I can almost predict where the cops will be at any given time of the day.......
Don’t speed and you won’t care where the speed traps are.
Soon Chicago will have the most speed traps. Rahm will be putting in speed cameras on any street within 2 miles of a school. This will cover at least 50% of all city streets. He says it’s not about revenue, that it’s about saving children. Uh huh. Even though most deaths of pedestrians do not take place near schools or involve speed in excess of the posted limit. Gov. Quinnochio says about this, “When you save just one life, you save the whole world.” Why are we afflicted with such political freaks? Oh, wait. I know. It’s because the Democrat machine of Chicago runs or tries to run almost everything in the state.
I know, and that’s what I do. I was posting that for other’s edification.
Summersville, West Virginia!
followed by Handley, Pratt and Smithers, West Virginia.
East Lansing, Michigan has to be on the list, followed by Redford, Novi, and Farmington Hills in that order.
I haven’t been up there for years, but I’m surprised the roads are in good enough shape to even drive the limit, let alone speed.
Hanging Rock, Ohio.
Four lane superhighway US 52 suddenly drops from 65 to 55 mph at Hanging Tree, er Rock. 55 means 55 mph.
To contest a speeding ticket, you go to Mayor’s court. Mayor, BTW, hires the LEO’s. Court date is regularly changed from the Friday date of appearance on the ticket to Monday by a post-it note stuck on the village hall door. “Sorry for the inconvenience.” LOL.
Toledo Blade reported the entire property tax base of HR is $3200.00, yet Hanging Rock rakes in over $200k in traffic fines annually.
There was a sh!tty little burb in Cleveland named Linndale that had a 200 ft jurisdiction on I-71 that used to pull that stuff.
Don’t know if they are still at it or not, been gone 30 yrs.
Hanging Rock, Ohio From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hanging Rock is a village in Lawrence County, Ohio, United States, along the Ohio River. The population was 279 at the 2000 census. It is regularly labeled a speed trap as the state auditor reported $109,186 in mayor’s court receipts in 2000 compared with $3,106 in property taxes.[3]
Hanging Rock is a part of the Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH, Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA); it had a population of 288,649 at the 2000 census.
Legal troubles
In early January 2008, Hanging Rock became subject of a lawsuit challenging the legality of its mayor’s court. The suit was filed by Karen Lahr, and names Mayor Chris Davidson among the defendants.[5]
I’m callin’ BS on this one. Even ignoring the S-band radar vs. anti-air radar threat receivers issue, the Sidewinder is an air-to-air intercept missile (and uses an infra-red targeting system). The HARM anti-radar missile would be the appropriate ATG ordnance for the situation...
Since the graphic uses quotes around the response by the RAF, I’m assuming they are repeating it verbatim... in which case either the RAF officer is completely incompetent, or the “quote” is made up completely...
Use to work in Fraser, and the city IS A SPEED TRAP!!!!
Never got a ticket, but a lot of coworkers did, and it was a small shop.
I71 at 130th St. not listed as a speed trap since 2005. IIRC, about five years ago Linndale had a LEO or two severely injured and several patrol cars wrecked during a traffic stop enforcing their 200ft of Interstate highway. Village residents were very angry.
Hanging Rock, still a speed trap. Last year a Hanging Rock LEO was sent to prison for shaking down a traffic stop.
Cheers,
OLA
That's why he's so much in favor of abortion-killing.
Cordially,
Actually not true.
A city that wants to encourage SAFE driving and minimize accidents will have large and clearly visible speed limit signs which will gradually step down from highway speed to urban speed.
A city that WANTS people to speed and therefore generate revenue will have poorly marked speed limit signs and speeds that drop down from 65 to 30 in a quarter mile or so.
The latter is the definition of a "speed trap" and again, it's designed to trick you into speeding, not warn you against it.
When teh speed limit on a road changes several times in the space of a few miles for no apparent reason, it’s not for safety, it’s “revenue enhancement”.
Example: A commuter artery near me has just been re-jigged (to put in bicycle lanes), with traffic islands (for hiding cop cars) in the middle of the road, wide sidewalks, etc. The toward town speed limit on this road starts off at 30 mph, drops to 25, then there is a ONE BLOCK section of 30 mph, immediately after which it drops to 20 mph. Then it returns to 30 mph. The other direction limits are NOT the mirror image, there is one less speed change heading out of town.
This is in 3 miles. Oh, and even after the re-jigging and 40 MILLION dollars in improvements, some of the speed limit signs are somewhat obscured. But they’re not speed traps, right?
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