Boise, Idaho Speed Traps

There is an officer on a bike on the right side of the road when traveling southbound on Broadway past Boise Avenue. He is there around lunchtime when the 20 mph school speed limit is enforced. I always go 20 through there but without fail see a few people a week get pulled over.

E. Myrtle is a major, multi-lane, eastbound, one-way thoroughfare in downtown Boise (just south of E. Front Street, on which the Ada County Courthouse is situated [where municipal, county, and state traffic tickets, etc., are tried]).

Police in cars or motorcycles regularly situate themselves partially obscured on the east side of a private building on private property just east of S. Avenue A, often (always?) using lidar to pick off drivers exceeding an unrealistically low 35 MPH limit.

Heading north on Maplegrove after heading down from the over pass, on the east side of Maplegrove by the storage units under the pine trees, there hides a Motor cop ready to pull you over.

Radar is set for traffic traveling north over the freeway overpass. Patrol car sits on the east side of Maple Grove and is generally visible if you know where to look. Minor excess over posted speed is okay but watch it carefully.

5/2008

Coming up (west) on Fairview from downtown, they will sit there either in Rockies parking lot or the little street next to it. It’s easy to end up hitting that 35mph zone going too fast coming up and off the connector. I’ve been caught twice there.

4/2008