[Rebelbase]

Wasn’t there a town in Florida that was such a speed trap that it lost its charter and the police force disbanded?

[HonkyTonkMan]

Waldo, FLA

[relictele]

New Rome OH was also one.

Summersville WV has long been known as a speed trap. They claimed it was about saaaaaafety of course but the ATM shrank quite a bit when two of their officers (who were brothers)were discovered to be involved in a host of illegal activity.

[2CAVTrooper]

Yeah Waldo FL, US 301 runs through it.

[sport]

There was It was on U.S. 301, north of Tampa. I can’t recall the name, and there might have been more. There might have been one at Coleman which was on U.S. 301 also.

[lightman]

Wasn’t there a town in Florida that was such a speed trap that it lost its charter and the police force disbanded?

There was a Borough in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania called West Fairview which was located along US 11 & 15 just south of the PRR Enola yard.

11 & 15 has a long viaduct which ends on a downgrade...that was the north line of the former Borough. The Borough had a speed trap right at the line. Quite the moneymaker...fun while it lasted.

The town is now an unincorporated village in East Pennsboro Township.

[LFOD]

Yep....Waldo and Lawtey FL.
The state got involved finally after 20+ years of complaints.
The Waldo popo was disbanded in 2014 and patrol duties handed over to the Alachua County Sheriff.

[fungoking]

Missouri passed the “Macks Creek” law that limited the % of revenue a city can derive from traffic tickets. Macks Creek was a famous speed trap town, no longer has a police department.

Years of public complaints did little, the state legislator getting a ticket got the ball rolling.