List of towns where speed limits are hyper-enforced (Boise, Idaho Falls: rent, home)

[norcalmom101]

Ok, I figured it would be helpful for folks to know what towns really take their posted speed limits seriously. Towns where you will be pulled over if you exceed the speed, towns notorious for this.

I'll start. Lots of folks get pulled over in Idaho Falls, but when I talk to co-workers who are from here it seems most of them get their tickets in Shelley. Shelley cops will pull you over for exceeding any posted speed. Right now, they have a program going on with the county where any excess speed (and I mean any) or failure to come to a complete stop or use a signal etc. ad nauseum will get you pulled over for a sobriety check.

OTOH, everyone speeds between Shelley and IF.

Don't speed in Shelley.

[stingraynm]

Horseshoe Bend was a guarantee in my day, and probably still is. Each year they get more traffic and that stretch stays right at an abrupt 65-55-45-35-25 mph slowdown. It makes traffic bad during tourist and college commute seasons, but is understandable considering how that through traffic must have driven locals insane if the speed ever wasn't strictly enforced.

Riggins was also a good bet, for the exact same reasons. Especially around the station at the rec parking lot on the north side. The only time I didn't see an officer there was in the early AM, and fishermen weren't up for speeding anyway.

[Sage of Sagle]

As you pass through the indian reservation and little towns between Coeur d'Alene and Moscow, it's like that. They LOVE the ticket revenue there apparently...

[stingraynm]

Originally Posted by Sage of Sagle

As you pass through the indian reservation and little towns between Coeur d'Alene and Moscow, it's like that. They LOVE the ticket revenue there apparently...

You got that right... can't believe I forgot Lapwai, which is more b/w Lewiston and Moscow, but same thing.

[rickers]

I can't afford any speeding tickets, I drive that stretch a few times per year and I believe these speed limits are reasonable, (if you don't agree, try to get them changed) ! My truck is old and it really shouldn't be driven over any speed limit and there are agricultural vehicles and logging equipment running slow as well as deer around the next bend. The strict enforcement on the reservation is due to the fools who go there to gamble away money they can't afford then go speeding home drunk and pissed off that they just lost their rent money and the wife is going to throw a hooey for sure !

[eastidahomom]

Originally Posted by norcalmom101

Ok, I figured it would be helpful for folks to know what towns really take their posted speed limits seriously. Towns where you will be pulled over if you exceed the speed, towns notorious for this.

I'll start. Lots of folks get pulled over in Idaho Falls, but when I talk to co-workers who are from here it seems most of them get their tickets in Shelley. Shelley cops will pull you over for exceeding any posted speed. Right now, they have a program going on with the county where any excess speed (and I mean any) or failure to come to a complete stop or use a signal etc. ad nauseum will get you pulled over for a sobriety check.

OTOH, everyone speeds between Shelley and IF.

Don't speed in Shelley.

Shelley is notorious for that and has been for a long time. Rigby, Rexburg, St. Anthony, the road to Osgood, Roberts, are other ones. State troopers lay in wait. About 100 miles this side of Boise gets pretty bad too.

*knocking on simulated wood* haven't had a ticket in many, many years. For the most part, I have a tough time when I'm coming off the interstate. Trying to slow to the speed limit always seems difficult then.

[zedd]

Bellevue is another one - the speed limit on Hwy 75 is 25 mph and they do enforce it!

[norcalmom101]

Garden City

[Greybear]

Speaking of north/central ID. Many people there drive to Spokane, WA. and in doing so, drive through Colfax, WA.

I tell you what, you better not be speeding through this town, it borders ridiculous. If you go 1 mph over the limit, your busted.


(soap box time)

My beef with this is that there is no way that their radar gun has a precision resolved under 1 mph. Furthermore, I highly doubt that your car's speedometer has a precision any better then 3-4 mph (check your speedometer against one of those displays on the side of the road).

The combined error between your cars speedometer, and the cops radar gun is unlikely, in my opinion, to be under 1 mph. So how can they prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that you really were going (or thought you were going) 1 mph over the speed limit?

Its interesting to me that they never report error. They should say, " you were going 37 (plus or minus) 3 mph," for example, since all measurements have a level of error. This is why reasonable cops give you a cushion.

I was pulled over in north Idaho and the guy said 5 over is fine with him, but any more will get you pulled over. I'm cool with that.

For what its worth, I will never stop in Colfax for gas, or anything else. They will not get a cent of my money.

(end rant)

[norcalmom101]

Originally Posted by Greybear

Speaking of north/central ID. Many people there drive to Spokane, WA. and in doing so, drive through Colfax, WA.

I tell you what, you better not be speeding through this town, it borders ridiculous. If you go 1 mph over the limit, your busted.


(soap box time)

My beef with this is that there is no way that their radar gun has a precision resolved under 1 mph. Furthermore, I highly doubt that your car's speedometer has a precision any better then 3-4 mph (check your speedometer against one of those displays on the side of the road).

The combined error between your cars speedometer, and the cops radar gun is unlikely, in my opinion, to be under 1 mph. So how can they prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that you really were going (or thought you were going) 1 mph over the speed limit?

Its interesting to me that they never report error. They should say, " you were going 37 (plus or minus) 3 mph," for example, since all measurements have a level of error. This is why reasonable cops give you a cushion.

I was pulled over in north Idaho and the guy said 5 over is fine with him, but any more will get you pulled over. I'm cool with that.

For what its worth, I will never stop in Colfax for gas, or anything else. They will not get a cent of my money.

(end rant)

Just a note of caution about assuming Radar vs. Laser. Laser is accurate to less than 1 mph, and can pinpoint one moving object from among many.