San Jose, California Speed Traps

This applies to traffic exiting Hwy 85 in the southbound direction. Officers wait for people to not completely stop when making a right hand turn onto Great Oaks. I have seen them there on many occasions pulling people over to give them a ticket.

Heading southbound on Winchester, coming through Santa Clara, there is a regular speed trap set up just before you get to Hedding St. The next major intersection would be Stevens Creek Blvd., so it’s a fairly busy area. The trap is a motorcylce officer camped out behind a clump of shrubs running radar. There is a school zone and a retirement home in the immediate area, so enforcement of the speed limit is fairly strict.

I live in the area, and I see cars stopped (by a motorcylce) at the Walgreens parking lot at Winchester/Hedding all the time. While I’ve only been clocked a couple of times myself at that trap, I have to assume all of the speeders I’ve seen pulled over came from that location.

Be careful out there!

This speedtrap is located at the westbound lanes of W. Taylor Street just west of the Highway 87 overpass. As you’re going over the freeway, westbound and picking up speed, there are often two or more SJPD motorcycle units there with instant-on laser doing their "selective enforcement." By the time you see them, it’s too late.

This applies to northbound traffic on Almaden Expressway in southwest San Jose. Passing Camden Ave just about a mile there is a rightward bend in the road(right before the Redmond intersection). This bend conceals the speed trap (on the right shoulder)well enough to make any slowdown to avoid a ticket futile. The motorbike cops who often man this trap are indiscriminate and will ticket ANYONE going over the lightly poster 45mph limit. You will most likely find yourself with 2+ other unlucky drivers.

This is on a 4-6 lane expressway with a average minimum of 1 miles between stoplights, so traffic typicly travels at 60+mph.

Sometimes this trap can be un-cop’ed for over a month, sometimes they are there 2 days in a row. The most common time of the day is between 10am-1pm.

A Motorcycle cop usually post on the Hillview airport side. Usually across the street from the Mercedes Dealership in a desserted road. The desserted road runs longitude with Tully Road and he gets speeders on eastbound traffic on Capitol Expressway. Watchout, I have seen him catch yellow lighters too.