Northglenn, Colorado Speed Traps

Northglenn police sometimes operate a speed trap on eastbound Malley Drive at Highline Drive. The speed limit is 30 mph, but you are going downhill and it is easy to do 35-40 if you are not paying attention. Police car is well concealed on Highline Drive, and sometimes an officer will stand out by the street holding the radar. Also, there is a popular bike trail here, and the crosswalk law (yield to pedestrians) is very strictly enforced. Make sure you stop if there is a pedestrian or bicyclist even approaching the street.

On Community Center Drive, Northglenn police often operate a speed trap near Boondocks Fun Center. They either park in the driveway of "Boondocks" or in a vacant lot just to the north. Be especially cautious if you are southbound on Community Center Drive, and make sure you are not doing more than the speed limit of 25 mph as you come over the hill just south of Northglenn City Hall (in front of Stone Mountain Apartments). A friend of ours, who had a clean driving record for a long time, recently received a ticket for 6 mph over in this area, and the fine was $175. The officer told her that the fine is a lot higher for people who don’t have a clean driving record. If you are northbound on Community Center Drive and have just come across the bridge over I-25 (where the speed limit is 35), and the light at Malley Drive is green, make sure you slow to 25 by the time you pass this intersection. AM rush hour is the prime time for this speed trap, but it is common at any time during daylight hours, much less so at night.

Cops stand near exit of subdivision, behind newspaper machines and trees. They zap motorists as they approach down the parkway. They have great success as most people speed up as the road widens, not realizing that the speed limit stays 25 all the way to 104th ave.

Clocking officer sits in a chair on a pedestrian overpass above I25. Numerous police vehicles, both cars and motorcycles, pick off those he clocks a half-mile further down the road. Speed trap observed in operation on the north-bound lanes, don’t know if they ever do it on the south-bound lanes.

northglen pd sit in the northwest parking lot of first southern babtist church of northglen. about15-20feet east side of washington. drivers going north can see them at a distance if paying attention but southbound washington there is no view and there the ones that get nailed.