Upper Saddle River, New Jersey Speed Traps

Not a Speed trap but a "Keep Right Trap". Very insidious. Police in marked cars will pull over a driver while an unmarked car is waiting up the road. If you do the sensible and safe thing by moving over to the left to skirt the traffic stop, you will be in turn pulled over by the unmarked car behind for failing to keep right. Now your stop becomes the bait for the next victim.

ALERT: USR Officers are now using dark, unmarked, older cars and different steets since the Ash location has become common knowledge. They park as if they are making a u-turn or waiting for someone inside a local house. I also live in the immediate vicinity and something should be done about this. The speed limit of 25 on this very long and relatively quiet back road is not warranted whatsoever and makes Weiss Rd a blatant and constant TRAP for cops making their ticket quota. Perhaps the Weiss Rd residents are paying them to privately police this enormously wealthy street, as this has been an unfair nuisance for many years. Please, someone (media?) INVESTIGATE this!

Speed is posted at 25, road is graded for movement, so car slips into 35-45 range easily unless you’re constantly on guard. No locals ever drive the posted limit, and my family has lived in the immediate area for 25 years. A cop sits on a side street (usually Ash, it looks like a driveway)day and night. (I myself have gotten 2 tickets in the same spot from the same rookie!) You are coming either off of E. Saddle Riv. Rd or Chestnut Ridge Rd, both having varying speed limits of 40 or 45. I have seen unsuspecting motorists stopped at all hours, but pm rush hour is a favorite. Either crawl or avoid the street entirely.

Officer uses KA band radar. This has been a favorite hiding spot for many of Upper Saddle River’s finest. The road is definitely geared for 40 MPH, yet mobility is artificially reduced by a 25 MPH limit. Motorists not familiar with Upper Saddle River’s roving radar patrols are sitting ducks on this particular stretch of road. Upper Saddle River is one of the most aggresively patrolled boroughs in Bergen County. When you see an approaching patrolman in this town, seven times out of ten you are being clocked as you go by.