Interstate 95 through the northeast corridor is bad in a lot of places. Most of Connecticut, Southern NJ, northern Delaware right as you come across the DE Memorial Bridge, all of northern Maryland… 95 through North Jersey isn’t too bad, though, mainly because there are very few places on the turnpike for police to hide.
Thank goodness. I fell asleep on the NJT for a split second one time at maybe 2 am and woke up to find myself going 100. :eek: Thank God it was pretty empty and I didn’t hurt anyone else or myself.
I am more careful now.
A little pustule (pop. 400) of a town on Hwy 71 that wouldn’t exist except for ticket revenue.
There’s a sleepy little town in northern MA – Berverly, maybe? – that apparently has a nototious intersection where tickets are written regularly. Slowing down to .000000001 mph at the stop sign is not the same as a full stop.
I don’t know if this happens anymore, but there is one intersection in Boston that was quite the money maker in the late 80s/early 90s. Going north on Mass Ave just before the Mass Ave bridge and turning left onto Comm Ave is an illegal left turn. Every morning I’d see 5-6 cars pulled over.
Most of Indiana, like most of the US, won’t bother you for 10 mph over the limit. If you happen to pass through Chesterfield, though, you’d better cleave to the actual speed limit. The town is not embarrassed about it, either. They haven’t had a traffic fatality in who knows how long.
I can’t say if they patrol the nearby stretch of I-69 (where it crosses Indiana 32,) but I would not chance it.
I came to mention this because I head up this route every time I leave and return to FLA. It’s so bad that Triple-A put up a billboard announcing the Lawtey Speed Trap.
Funny, my relatives have never once mentioned it to me, and they travel that route all the time.
http://www.speedtrap.org/ Do it yourself speed traps. We already know about a couple near my house.
Ohio mis famous for harassing drivers driving through to Florida. They have a low limit and ticket everything.
I-59 N from Houston up through Tyler is the worst I’ve ever seen. The posted limit keeps changing drastically. You’ll be doing 60 and then it’s 25, then back to 55, then down to 30 and cops abound all along the way.
Contrast that with I-10 west of San Antonio where the limit is 80 mph and most everyone goes faster still. To Del Rio and down towards Big Bend where it’s wide open and virtually no police I’ve put cruise control on 108 and made short work of the lonely, distant stretches.
Yep, that’s been exactly my experience driving in Texas. If you’re on Interstate 10 you can do 80 and still have people passing you, completely undisturbed by the law. But as soon as you get on some of the smaller roads, you better be reeeaallly careful, especially if you have out of state plates.
Hicksville, OH, where I was born and raised before fleeing at 17, had a notorious trick.
It’s a little farming town near the Indiana border. Speed limit was 55 from the state line until the city limit sign. The only problem was, the first sign indicating that the rate had dropped to 35 was 300 yards AFTER the city limit sign.
They eventually put in a buffer zone and proper signage a year or two before I left, but the whole time growing up that was a big $$$ raiser for the town.
In the SF Bay Area it’s the city of Alameda. The speed limit is 25 throughout and the police department is ( or was ) one of the largest relative to population in the area. It is notorious for nailing anybody and everybody for the smallest of infractions ( I knew someone who literally got a ticket for going 26, it even specified that number on the ticket ). The standing joke ( once told to me by an Alameda cop giving me a ticket ) is every new resident usually gets a speeding violation within the first six months of residence.
Last time I was in traffic school ( some years ago ), the instructor asked how many people were in for speeding violations - 85% of the class of 40-odd raised their hands. Then he asked how many had received their tickets in Alameda. About half the class, as it turned out. I might add this class was held a couple of towns away from Alameda.
It’s a nice town in a lot of ways, but don’t speed there.
I was never there during morning commute, but I’ve done this at plenty of other times and never saw any cops.
My experiences in Texas mirrors joebuckand lieu’s. The ones that I encounter on my most frequent travels are on I-65 from north of the Ohio river to about Seymour, IN (state police hiding behind a lot of trees and bushes 
) and a stretch in Nashville on SR 45 through the Lakeville and Old Hickory areas of town (speed limit 45…don’t get caught doing 46). I’ve run across a few in other parts of the country, but these are the ones that I’m most familiar with.
When I was a kid, the famous speed trap was a town named Ludowici in Georgia.
South Pittsburg, Tennessee.
The stretch of I-70 that goes through a teeny bit of West Virginia.
The entire state of Delaware.
Yep came here to mention this one right here. But just about anywhere in rural south Georgia. The local sheriffs can keep all the money they get from civil forfeitures and buy the deputies all kinds of cool stuff. It’s a big money maker.
Everything along the Michigan/Ohio line. The speed limit in Michigan is higher than it is in Ohio (I’m blanking on the specifics, as I don’t drive) and the OH police just sit on the border and wait for people to come speeding across.
Lots of places in Ohio are bad, as have been mentioned.
U.S. 58 in and around Emporia, Virginia is just awful, too. It’s not at all unusual to see several cars pulled over there.
The township Boston Heights, Ohio covers a stretch of Rt. 8 where it turns from a 65 MPH highway to a 50 MPH road. Lots and lots of tickets there.
Although, the state is getting rid of that stretch of road and connecting Rt. 8 to I-271, so no more 50 MPH road. I wonder if Boston Heights will fold when the project is completed.