Speed traps on property!

[Herbie]

We took a casual drive over to the POLY for some breakfast and a monorail ride on sunday. After we passed the parking booth, and headed to the poly, we saw the local sheriff with his radar gun pointed at us....he busted the car behind us....
On our way out, saw another one that had a car stopped at the epcot entrance.


this is the first I have seen this on Disney roads!

 

[pepe of ohio]

We've seen them numerous times headed into the main gate and on to the CR....as they should, people are flying thru paying no attention to anything...so many accidents...

Cast members headed to work, supply trucks delivering and guests with no idea of where they're going but hot footing anyway...

If it takes tickets to slow it down and save a life... I'm for it..!

 

[Tozzie]

We took a casual drive over to the POLY for some breakfast and a monorail ride on sunday. After we passed the parking booth, and headed to the poly, we saw the local sheriff with his radar gun pointed at us....he busted the car behind us....
On our way out, saw another one that had a car stopped at the epcot entrance.


this is the first I have seen this on Disney roads!

The title of your thread is extremely inflamatory and wrong, they arent speed traps, it is enforcement of the speed limit plain and simple.

 

[OKW Lover]

Always good to watch your speed on WDW property. Lots of folks who have no idea where they are going and are apt to quickly change lanes after reading the signs and realizing they should be exiting NOW.

 

[joelkfla]

Very common on WDW roadways. I'd say I see deputies doing speed enforcement somewhere on WDW property about half the days I'm driving.

They're not "speed traps" per se, as they're not set up to trick drivers into speeding; just enforcement. Sometimes a single squad car, sometimes 3 or 4 cars with 1 or 2 more deputies just shooting the radar.

Favorite spots:

• The STOLport entrance on World Dr. between the toll plaza & 7 Seas
• World Dr. approaching the toll plaza (limit drops from 50 to 35)
• Osceola Pkwy. in either direction around World Dr.
• Western Way approaching Buena Vista Dr. from Toll 429

About 90% of the cars on Western Way are cm's coming to work, and many routinely ignore the limit drop from 45 to 35. There's plenty of warning about the limit drop, so even though the deputies usually hide behind a curve, I wouldn't call it a trap. Sometimes they'll just wave cars over, and there'll be 2 or 3 offenders waiting in line for their tickets.

 

[Shelly F - Ohio]

They are notorious for hiding out on the roadway to MK. They have been doing it for a number of years.

 

[lost*in*cyberspace]

The title of your thread is extremely inflamatory and wrong, they arent speed traps, it is enforcement of the speed limit plain and simple.

Of course they are speed traps!

 

[bumbershoot]

Of course they are speed traps!

Agreed.

I wonder what a speed trap is to some people? To me it's a spot for police to sit and hide, trapping people who are speeding.

 

[LBIJim]

Agreed.

I wonder what a speed trap is to some people? To me it's a spot for police to sit and hide, trapping people who are speeding.

And what's wrong with a speed trap? Drive the speed limit or slightly above and there is no problem. Boo fricking hoo if you get stopped and receive a ticket.

 

[joelkfla]

Agreed.

I wonder what a speed trap is to some people? To me it's a spot for police to sit and hide, trapping people who are speeding.

To me, a speed trap is a spot where the speed limit drops substantially with little or no warning and without valid safety reasons, set up specifically to make money for the local government off of unaware motorists.

I don't view enforcement of a reasonable speed limit as a speed trap, even if it's where the limit drops (with adequate warning) and even if the officers are in a place where they're not readily seen -- especially if it's in a spot where there's a problem of speeding by local drivers, who should know better.

The spot most people complain about is the STOLport entrance on World Dr. The speed limit has been at 35 for about a mile before this spot, and furthermore, cars have either just accelerated from a stop at the toll plaza or come around a sharp curve off of Vista Blvd. There's really no excuse for speeding here.

 

[Darklord77]

When is it not a trap then? I've never understood calling them "Speed Traps." They are enforcing a commonly known law call speeding. The speed limits are posted on big white signs with large font black letters. I can see calling it a trap if the speed reduces and the new sign is covered by bushes or a tree or something.

When you try to trap an animal you would use bait of some sort. Are the cops using bait to get people to speed? I've been going 15-20 mph over the speed limit on disney property and had my doors blown off many times. I would say they do need police enforcing the speed limits.

 

[bumbershoot]

And what's wrong with a speed trap? Drive the speed limit or slightly above and there is no problem. Boo fricking hoo if you get stopped and receive a ticket.

I wasn't saying there was anything wrong with it.

 

[bumbershoot]

To me, a speed trap is a spot where the speed limit drops substantially with little or no warning and without valid safety reasons, set up specifically to make money for the local government off of unaware motorists.

Do such things exist outside of movies? How strange.

If I noticed speed limit signs that couldn't be seen I would notify the highway department quickly. In my town it's the opposite. There's a spot that goes from a righteous 35 to a highway 60, but the sign's pole was knocked over a year ago. The light post was replaced but the limit sign was not. Those of us who know it's 60 once it changes to highway get frustrated by those who don't! The highway is short so people just think it's a weirdly slow one I suppose.

 

[joelkfla]

Do such things exist outside of movies? How strange.

If I noticed speed limit signs that couldn't be seen I would notify the highway department quickly. In my town it's the opposite. There's a spot that goes from a righteous 35 to a highway 60, but the sign's pole was knocked over a year ago. The light post was replaced but the limit sign was not. Those of us who know it's 60 once it changes to highway get frustrated by those who don't! The highway is short so people just think it's a weirdly slow one I suppose.

They did in the past. They were pretty common in the South, and AAA issued warnings about them at least as late as the 1960's.

I remember a story on the news maybe 10 years ago about a spot on a highway (I think it was in Georgia) where the police were notorious for pulling over out-of-state motorists who were in the process of slowing down but not quickly enough to suit the local gendarmes. That's a speed trap!

I think they may still exist in some small towns, but to what extent, I really don't know.

 

[stinkpickle]

They did in the past. They were pretty common in the South, and AAA issued warnings about them at least as late as the 1960's.

I remember a story on the news maybe 10 years ago about a spot on a highway (I think it was in Georgia) where the police were notorious for pulling over out-of-state motorists who were in the process of slowing down but not quickly enough to suit the local gendarmes. That's a speed trap!

I think they may still exist in some small towns, but to what extent, I really don't know.

That used to be VERY common in small town Missouri. Several towns were well known for their police issuing high numbers of tickets to out-of-town visitors coming in for high school ball games. They even warned us about it at school.

 

[grimley1968]

They did in the past. They were pretty common in the South, and AAA issued warnings about them at least as late as the 1960's.

I remember a story on the news maybe 10 years ago about a spot on a highway (I think it was in Georgia) where the police were notorious for pulling over out-of-state motorists who were in the process of slowing down but not quickly enough to suit the local gendarmes. That's a speed trap!

I think they may still exist in some small towns, but to what extent, I really don't know.

They're still all over the place in Kentucky and Tennessee. I drive on a lot of smaller highways in the area and know many of these locations and can anticipate them, but to people who are driving in them for the first time, they just better hope the trooper is on a lunch break. Obscured signs, 20 MPH drops in speed limits, and small towns with low property taxes with budgets dependent on speeding ticket revenue just about guarantee their existence.

 

[Herbie]

Seems as though we are WAYYYYY off topic. "speed trap " is not inflammatory.

I was simply pointing out the fact that I had not seen this done ON Disney property before.

 

[MillauFr]

They should just move towards video camera enforcement of the speed limits. They have installed them in Seattle in school zones and they have been very effective at reducing speeds.

 

[DVC California]

They should just move towards video camera enforcement of the speed limits. They have installed them in Seattle in school zones and they have been very effective at reducing speeds.

Might be more difficult to manage camera enforcement in such a high tourist area, especially with the higher percentage of rental cars.

 

[Tozzie]

Of course they are speed traps!

No they aren't speed "traps" the speed limit doesn't change, the Sherrifs are enforceing the speed limit, no one is forcing people to go above the llimit, they do it and get caught. That is not a speed trap, just enforcement.