Boise, Idaho Speed Traps

A motorcycle cop will be sitting in either the Lynwood Place cul-de-sac, the Lubkin St. entrance, (or sometimes at Plymouth St.) along Curtis Road between Fairview and Mountain View with his radar on facing the northbound traffic. You cannot see the cop as he is usually parked in the shadows under a tree or just out of site. It is 35 MPH and a school zone part of the year. This makes it easy pickings for them to nail someone. They are mainly there in the mornings, but I have seen them there at all hours of the day to easily get their quotas.

Where the connector changes to Front Street, I believe, and speed dropps dramatically from 55 to 45 to 30, there is often police parked in parking lot on right hand side where there’s a lot of signs and bushes.

Thursdays are the hottest time for enforcement, speed limit is an outrageously low 40mph, cops hang out in side streets

In the noon to afternoon hours there is always at least one cop posted along Curtis near Borah High School. The speed limit is 30, very hard to obey, and he will get you for it. There are also a few cops along Aurora, behind the school, in the morning hours.

There are usually a couple of cops that hide out behind signs in parking lots at various spots along chinden. The posted speed is 35, which nobody obeys, and they’re usually pretty tight about it. The two I see most often are about 1/2 mile – 1 mile east of the fairgrounds.