Austin, Texas Speed Traps

Officers set under the underpass near Barton Skyway. Sometimes the officer is sitting in a Ford Explorer, and sometimes it is two officers on motorcycles. They are hard to see and they try to catch people coming from either direction (North and South). They are there mid-day when there is not a lot of traffic on Mopac. Watch your speed because they are hard to see.

Motorcycle police are cleverly hidden on the sidewalk right across from the Country Club Apartments driveway. This is an easy pickings site. There are plenty of UT students who are picked off for driving over 30 MPH . AMD and other area employees who use Wickersham as a cut through to Riverside get caught coming to work AND at lunch time. Another easy ticket is for not coming to a complete stop at the Riverside & Wickersham light, SERIOUSLY. The final easy ticket is for pulling into the far lane when turning. It turns out that one can only take the first last in a turn, again SERIOUSLY! Good luck! 🙂

In the morning the motorcycle police are sitting right before the Wellsley Inn or the Diamond Shamrock waiting to catch you. The speed limit just dropped to 35 MPH. In the mid-day, from 9AM – 1PM, the motorcycle police move across the stree to the the parking lots at The Bazaar and at Jack In The Box. Again it is 35 MPH from I-35 to the intersection with the Church’s Fried Chicken.

Two motorcycle cops around the corner in the tunnel under the interchange at about 7900 North Lamar and 183 with Radar guns

Watch for 2 or 3 motorcycle cops at this intersection. They love to stop people for anything!! This is a 4 way stop that is always run by people.