Speed Trap Thread

[crank]

Let's help each other out with those special locations where the law loves to lay in wait and slap you with a ticket.

Here's one to start. Troy VT on Rt. 100 near Jay Peak. Speed limit goes from 55 to 40 and you'd better comply because more often than not there will be a trooper laying in wait just past the sign. And be careful leaving town because they also hide on Rt. 101 as you turn for Jay. I was nailed accelerating on my way out of town - within sight of the 55mph sign after slowing, passing a cruiser parked in a driveway on the way into Troy and thinking I was safe.

More?

 

[Ski Diva]

I live in Vermont, so I feel qualified to say this: the entire state is a big speed trap. Your best bet, wherever you are, is to follow the speed limit signs. It's the easiest way not to get a ticket.

 

[thetrailboss]

Route 4 in Bridgewater, Vermont. They are there everyday. The speed limit drops from 50 to 40 to 25. Beware.

 

[Puck it]

Route 4 in Bridgewater, Vermont. They are there everyday. The speed limit drops from 50 to 40 to 25. Beware.

In various different spots along there.

 

[bigbob]

I live in NH, don't due more than 10 MPH over the limit. They leave you alone below that since the fine is so low that it is not worth it. I have found on the interstates, keep it under 80 MPH in the 65 MPH areas and they leave you alone.
Back to VT, Woodstock is 25 MPH, at 26 MPH they will ticket you. Welcome to Vt, we need your money more than you do! Nice welcome mat for tourist!!

 

[Glenn]

During ski season, 91 between Northampton and the VT line is one large trap....North and Southbound. If you have a CT, NY or NJ plate, I think your chances of being pulled over increase by 50%.

I find the area of route 100, near Mt Snow to be heavily patrolled during busy weekends; ski season or not. It's really best to follow the speed limit signs and don't drink and drive. The local paper prints the exerpts from the police blotter and it's mostly DUI's....and most are out of state.

 

[hammer]

• Near Sunapee, there's Rt. 103 through Newbury, NH. There's one spot where the speed limit goes down at the top of a hill and I've seen police there waiting and/or ticketing.

• Not near any ski areas, but there's a speed trap in Nashua NH, on Rt. 3 after exit 2. State police wait on the left side of the road at a point where you can see them until it's too late. Keep it under 65 and you should be OK.

 

[deadheadskier]

I live in NH, don't due more than 10 MPH over the limit. They leave you alone below that since the fine is so low that it is not worth it. I have found on the interstates, keep it under 80 MPH in the 65 MPH areas and they leave you alone.
Back to VT, Woodstock is 25 MPH, at 26 MPH they will ticket you. Welcome to Vt, we need your money more than you do! Nice welcome mat for tourist!!

my uncle lives in Quechee, brother in Taftsville. Both say the same thing about Woodstock. Do not travel even 1 mph over the speed limit.

They had cop like that back in the early 90s in Ludlow. He had arrived from LA and was nicknamed Hollywood by the townspeople. Eventually the citizens of the town demanded that he be fired and he was.

 

[deadheadskier]

89 South in NH roughly 2 miles before the 93 Interchange. Cops sits in the center cut over, which is noticeable, but in a treed area. You can see the Authorized vehicle only sign, but can't see if a cop is sitting there until it is too late. The speed limit drops from 65 to 55. They look to nail the folks still going 75.

 

[Black Phantom]

89 South in NH roughly 2 miles before the 93 Interchange. Cops sits in the center cut over, which is noticeable, but in a treed area. You can see the Authorized vehicle only sign, but can't see if a cop is sitting there until it is too late. The speed limit drops from 65 to 55. They look to nail the folks still going 75.

Exit 13 (Grantham I believe) on 89N is another location where the Local cops love to hang. There are some noticeable frost heaves in that area as well unless they have been repaired over the summer.

 

[Puck it]

89 South in NH roughly 2 miles before the 93 Interchange. Cops sits in the center cut over, which is noticeable, but in a treed area. You can see the Authorized vehicle only sign, but can't see if a cop is sitting there until it is too late. The speed limit drops from 65 to 55. They look to nail the folks still going 75.

On 93 in the median around exit 9 and 10, is a popular spot too,

 

[bobbutts]

• Near Sunapee, there's Rt. 103 through Newbury, NH. There's one spot where the speed limit goes down at the top of a hill and I've seen police there waiting and/or ticketing.

• Not near any ski areas, but there's a speed trap in Nashua NH, on Rt. 3 after exit 2. State police wait on the left side of the road at a point where you can see them until it's too late. Keep it under 65 and you should be OK.

Also 103 in Bradford just north of 114 intersection. It's a 40 mph zone.

 

[Puck it]

Also 103 in Bradford just north of 114 intersection. It's a 40 mph zone.

I got nabbed there in a snow storm a couple of years ago.

 

[dmc]

I got a RADAR detector with GPS - I mark every speed trap.. Works great...

 

[billski]

I live in Vermont, so I feel qualified to say this: the entire state is a big speed trap. Your best bet, wherever you are, is to follow the speed limit signs. It's the easiest way not to get a ticket.

+1 Never felt the need to speed. No tickets. No problem man.

 

[mondeo]

I live in NH, don't due more than 10 MPH over the limit. They leave you alone below that since the fine is so low that it is not worth it. I have found on the interstates, keep it under 80 MPH in the 65 MPH areas and they leave you alone.
Back to VT, Woodstock is 25 MPH, at 26 MPH they will ticket you. Welcome to Vt, we need your money more than you do! Nice welcome mat for tourist!!

Interstates, anywhere I've driven in the Northeast, limit + 10MPH is the actual limit.

I live in Vermont, so I feel qualified to say this: the entire state is a big speed trap. Your best bet, wherever you are, is to follow the speed limit signs. It's the easiest way not to get a ticket.

Never been pulled over for anything less than 10 over. I tend to keep it at 7 over (indicated 10 over on my speedometer) on the surface roads. Plymouth, keep it to about 37.

Which brings me to Plymouth, on 100 just a few miles before 4. Probably 60% of the time, there's a cop there. Think they just act as a "please slow down" cop, I've gone through there at 7 over before I learned he was always there and nothing, and there doesn't seem to be people pulled over there all that often.

 

[mondeo]

+1 Never felt the need to speed. No tickets. No problem man.

Saves me 40 minutes/week during the winter. In addition to the 5 minutes/day otherwise, and better gas mileage on surface streets.

 

[luvinjaycloud]

Pretty sure the non interstate speed limit max's out at 50 in Vermont so if you are busting it any faster than 60, and certainly 65 off the highway, you are game to get bagged.

 

[snowmonster]

Farmington, ME: Driving south on Route 27/4 (going home from either Sugarloaf or Saddleback), there's a big left bend on the road as you enter Farmington. The speed limit goes down to 25 and there's a cop sitting in a driveway right behind the bend with a radar.

 

[gmcunni]

Interstates, anywhere I've driven in the Northeast, limit + 10MPH is the actual limit.

i pretty much follow this rule for all driving, with the exception of "going with the flow", if everyone is doing more i'll stay with the pack.