Sacramento, California Speed Traps

Between Gordon and Garfield CHP in white cruisers sit with Radar/Laser guns. Posted speed limit is 40 MPH, and traffic generally flows at between 40 and 45 MPH. Don’t exceed 45, or you are asking for a ticket, but be safe and keep closer to 40.

Sac PD Motor Officers often park(hide) on side streets between Park Riviera Way and Windbridge Drive aiming their radar guns at on coming traffic. Traffic often exceeds the posted 40 mph limit by as much as 10-15 mph.

Officers in cruisers park and do paperwork in the shooting club parking lot located to the north of the expresswayway from where they’ve a clear view of the west-bound offramp to Fulton Ave. and tag people who roll through the stop sign at the top of the offramp.

The Alethea B. Smythe grade school located at 2781 Northgate Blvd between Haggin Ave & Wilson Ave. Northgate is a 4-lane road running north-south situated between Hwy 80 and Hwy 160. Natural traffic flow on Northgate runs about 40 to 45 mph in this mostly commercial area. When transitioning into this school speed zone, it�s very easy to exceed posted speed limit with pressure of close proximity cars lining up behind you. Suggest getting into right (slow) lane and slow to speed limit. Not unusual to see 4 to 6 motorcycle officers doing round robin tagging on both North and South bound lanes from time to time. Local TV stations occasionally do specials on speeders going past this school which includes interviews with local law enforcement and ticketed drivers.

got pulled over by a airplane radar going 80 northbound 99..police pointed out the plane..it was on a saturday afternoon