Mount Prospect, Illinois Speed Traps

Location is at Mt. Prospect and Central Roads. It’s a terribly configured road and you can easily get into a situation where you can be blocking traffic on Central Road when you are traveling NW on Mt. Prospect Road heading towards Rand Road. There’s an officer in the Tile place parking lot looking for "street blockers" (and no seat belts too). It sure seems like a money maker for Mt. Prospect since many, many times you block Central due to no fault of your own but due to too many cars trying to fit into a very small area leading to Rand road (which has a light and stops traffic there too. Anyone who’s gone through that intersecting tangle of streets knows what is meant!

4 lanes and a long distance between lights make it easy to go more than 10 over. Police have plenty of places to sit on side streets and in a church parking lot on the north side of Central.

Radar cop hidden on east side of Wolf road south of Kensington Road and north of Central Road.

All of these major four lane U.S. and state routes are underposted by 5 to 15 mph in most areas. With long distances between lights and people in a hurry to places such as woodfield, o’hare, wisconsin, etc., its easy to go over the already low speed limits. There is no place they can’t sit to catch speeders. Other roads like central, euclid, and busse are’nt much better.

On Kensington Rd. headed west after crossing Rt. 83, police will sit on side streets closest to Prospect High School with radar, usually at beginning and ending of school day. Speed limit is 30 mph. Don’t even think of speeding. It is a heavy speeding area by both teens and parents rushing to drop kids at school. I’m on the cops side; there are a lot of crazy drivers on that street.