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Texas Drives
The 40 Best
Speed Traps in Texas
It’s the trap
part that people object to
By Luke Warm |
Editor’s Note:
Since other Texas magazines are always touting the best of this and
the best of that, we decided to view speed traps with their positive
viewpoint. Don’t we all admire efficiency and hard work? Of course
we do. Therefore, the communities on the list have the hardest-working
and most efficient speed traps – allowing us to call them “The Best.”
- Ed. |
| Full disclosure:
this sign in Sarita,
Texas was meant to warn people of speed bumps but the sign maker
got it slightly wrong. – LW |
Mr.
Alan Cambre http://arencambre.com/blog/2010/03/04/texass-worst-speed-traps/
has compiled a list of the “worst” speed traps in Texas.
Worst meaning the highest ticket revenue per person.
The list below is from
Mr. Cambre’s research but we have added the county names - and the
highways where the offences took place. The revenue generated over
an eight year period (2000-2008) is found on Cambre’s site as well
and it’s nothing short of astounding.
In addition to this list are three other sites dealing with speed
traps, the third link is a motorist advocacy site that also deals
with red light cameras and publishes updates on their “popularity.”
www.speedtrapped.com
www.speedtrap.org
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www.motorists.org
*The number of Texas towns
included on speedtrap.org calls into question their data-gathering
techniques since the official state map of Texas has just under 2,000
towns listed and Speedtrap.org
shows that there are 1,926 speed traps in Texas.
Several of the above sites allow comments and there is always a goody-two
shoes who will say: “Don’t speed and you won’t get a ticket” or words
to that effect. We sincerely hope that they will come back and update
their comments after they get out of high school and have been out
in the real world awhile.
We were considering writing about speed traps back in 1998, however
after calling triple A to see if they had a list, we got a spokesperson
on the line who informed us that speed traps did not exist. He did
admit that there were zones when speed limits were rigidly enforced,
but (in a laughing tone) he said we had been watching too many old
television programs.
Reassured, but blushing at our ignorance, we decided that we shouldn’t
keep the myth alive. That very evening, as the local news began it’s
round-up, the lead story focused on one of these non-existent speed
traps on Highway 59 south of Houston
where motorists were given a choice of receiving a citation or donating
to a local charity. |
The Top
40 Worst Speed Traps in Texas
Compiled by Alan Cambre
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| Westlake |
Denton
/ Tarrant Counties Hwy 114 |
| Estelline |
Hall
County (Population 168) A ghost town is number 2 on the list. |
| Domino |
Cass
County Highway 59 Pop. 52 |
| Montgomery |
Montgomery
County State Hwy 105 |
| Martindale |
Caldwell
County Highway 146 |
| Cuney |
Cherokee
County Highway 175 |
| Palmer |
Ellis
County Highway 45 |
| Rio
Vista |
Johnson County Hwy 174 |
| Riesel |
McLennan
County Hwy 6 |
| Patton
Village |
Montgomery
County Hwy 59 |
| Mount
Enterprise |
Rusk
County Hwy 84 and 259 |
| Pantego |
Tarrant
County SW of Arlington |
| Wilmer |
Dallas
County Hwy 45 |
| Dalworthington |
Tarrant
County Between I-20 and I-30 |
| Lott |
Falls
County Hwy 77 |
| Lavon |
Collin
County Hwy 78 |
| Chillicothe |
Hardeman
County Hwy 287 |
| Waskom |
Harrison
County I-20 On the Louisiana State Line
“Welcome to Texas, here’s your ticket.” |
| Shenandoah |
Montgomery
County I-45 |
| Mustang
Ridge |
Travis/Caldwell
Counties Hwy 183 |
| Ferris |
Ellis County I-45 |
| Covington |
Hill
County Hwy 171 |
| Arcola |
Fort
Bend County Hwy 6 |
| Northlake |
Denton
County I-35W |
| Rice |
Navarro
County I-45 |
| Zavalla |
Jasper
County Hwy 63 |
| Magnolia* |
Not sure which of 3 (San Jacinto, Anderson or Montgomery) |
| Alvarado |
Johnson
County I-35 W, US 67 and 81 |
| Brownsboro* |
Not
sure of which county: Caldwell, Henderson or Kendall |
| Driscoll |
Nueces
County Highway 77 |
| Rhome |
Wise
County Highway 287/ 81 |
| Kemah |
Galveston
County Highway 146 |
| Corrigan |
Polk
County Highway 59 |
| Coffee
City |
Henderson
County Hwy 155 |
| Itaska |
Hill
County I-35 W |
| Eustace |
Henderson
County Highway 175 |
| Rogers |
Bell
County Highway 36 |
| Southside
Place |
Harris
County Adjoining Houston on Bellaire Blvd |
| Calvert |
Robertson County Highway 36 |
| Selma |
Bexar/
Comal County Line I-35 |
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