Just as most of you said already…. just don’t speed. It’s pretty easy to let the lead foot off of the pedal. Arrive Alive!

I have posted this before and I’ll post it again. To any St. Louis City official, have a police officer sit at the corner of Lisette & S. Kingshighway OR Bonita and S. Kingshighway. Have radar and ticket pad ready. Heck, you don’t even NEED a radar gun. Watch the idiots drive by at 50-60MPH, pull them over, write a ticket, and watch the money come in. Enough to remove the city 1% income tax! Ok, that’s a stretch, but I’ve contacted City Hall, Police, and anyone that will listen. Obviously nobody is listening. If you know of anyone I can contact, PLEASE let me know!

Drive Carefully: while you have it correct that these municipalities should be ashamed of themselves believe me they are not! The same little dinky towns and cities pop up every year on every list. I remember going to Waters’ Furniture for the first time some 30 years ago. I called and asked for directions and her instructions were clear: be careful in Curryville! That hasn’t changed. The state made it mandatory that they raise their speed limit but they still just hang out and wait. Bella Villa, ditto. That place has been that way since I was old enough to drive (1962). To think that if they had a major crime in their area they don’t have the forces to investigate yet they have revenue from violations of the law. These places just plain suck.

little has changed since I first went as a lawyer (usually the only one including the towns where they actually did not have a City attorney to prosecute)to “Night Court” in most of these towns and villages. Of course there are a few new names over the past 40 plus years but the one I will alwways miss is Times Beach. Speed trap heaven. Used to use their one car on that old stretch of Rte. 66 with a viaduct. It was their major source of revenue. The “rumor” was that the cops were paid out of the fines. Sometimes, it was also rumored, they took it out BEFORE they turned the ticket in by collecting on the roadside.

MOPDs are great…but serve and protect us - don’t hide behind bushes and boost your departments revenue with petty tickets that ruin law-abiding citizen’s days. sheesh. When I see a speed trap I flash oncoming traffic for miles.

Reality Check,

5. I personally think cameras at intersections for speeding and red lights are a violation of our privacy and don’t substantiate the need for a ticket in most instances.

6. This one is complete crap. Engineers design roadways for higher speeds than the posted speed limit. I should know. Engineers like factors of safety. Why do you think that you can go around most corners at a higher rate of speed an have no trouble? Because that roadway was probably designed for a speed 20-30 mph faster than posted.

I bet your one of those people who drive 5-10 mph under the speed limit in the left lane. That’s more dangerous than your typical speeder. Do us speeders a favor and get over.

If you were NOT speeding and got a ticket unfairly then fight it..but if you were in fact speeding 5, 10, 15 over the limit and got caught then accept the ticket like an adult. You broke the law.. no matter how unimportant you may think it is its still the law. Laws like speed limits exist to protect innocent people from morons …. You were speeding, you got caught.. either dont do it again or keep doing it, just stand behind your decision like an adult.

I live in Bella Villa and I am grateful for our police department. Our officers are generally parked in the same various places daily and yet, people race through our neighborhood with total disregard for the speed signs posted everywhere. There are a couple of 4-ways stops on Avenue H that have been there for more than the 20 years I have lived here, and drivers run those stop signs daily because they are usually going faster than the 30 miles allowed, which makes it very unsafe for our children and others who walk along these streets.
Kudos to our police officers who try to keep our little municipality safe.

First of all, I agree that some towns should not write a lot of tickets if they do not have a lot of motorists who are breaking the laws of the road or breaking other types of laws while traveling through these twonships. These types of towns do not have anything going on and no money and come up with stuff to do. Each city is different and has it’s different problems and should be evaluated differently. I reviewed this list of townships and found both types of towns. The ones I have talked about and then there are the ones that are in areas with a lot of problems and the only way to combat these problems is with aggressive proactive traffic enforcement.

You’ll notice all these are pretty much “small” towns or subdivisions. The same ones that go crying to the government that they can’t attract jobs or new development to their area. Who would want to move any type of business to a place that has nothing better to do than ticket folks?

Personally, I think it should be illegal to get more than 10% of revenue from tickets. Anything over 10% should automatically go to the state or to pay down the national debt.

Just get a decent radar detector…….that pretty much takes care of the problem………Im not talking one of the cheapos…..MY GF has one that was really expensive(more than $500) but it picks up all the bandwidths and at a distance of like 2 miles……enough time to slow down and flip the pig the bird……..