Worcester, Massachusetts Speed Traps
Pleasant Street near State Route 122
Route 122 from Paxton, MA to Tatnuck Square. City wide speed limit is 30mph. Down hill grade. City units like park on to Arlene Dr and gun from there. Could be a single cruiser or multiple cruisers. The trap is when you are going downhill there is a bending left turn as you finish the turn Arlene Dr is a few hundred yards down the street but the police have a direct line of site when you finish the turn. Road is a 2 lane road. Safe traffic speed is really 40mph. +5 over posted speedlimit will result in ticket.
State Route 122 near Pleasant Street
Rt 122 heading west from Tatnuck to Paxton. Up hill grade. 2 lane road. City wide speed limit is 30mph. City police patrol and like to park on Jeramiahs Lane. The squad car is obstructed by a tanning salon. Police usually are out of car with radar/laser gun. +5mph from posted speed limit will result in a ticket no matter the traffic flow. Can be a single crusier or multiple cruisers. Single crusier picks one unfortunate soul over. Mutiple crusiers pull everyone over.
State Highway 290 near State Highway 190
The Mass State Police are trapping motorists with rolling speed traps by using unmarked vehicles along Routes 190 and 290. They are using Dodge 300’s, Chargers, Magnums, Chevrolet Impalas, Ford F150 Pick ups, Explorers and Excursions. Most have blacked out windows.
Pleasant Street near Newton Hill
This has been a common speed trap in Worcester for many years, and is patrolled by a regular bunch of Tatnuck-square police officers. This is on the portion of Pleasant St. between the Pleasant / Park Ave. intersection and the Newton Square rotary. It is roughly 2 miles long, and the posted speed limit is 30 MPH, despite that a legitimate speed survey would report the 85th percentile to travel at about 45 MPH. The survey was likely taken shortly after the Park Ave / Pleasant St. traffic light, where there is high traffic and slower speeds.
The trap is to catch motorists coming from Newton Square and travelling towards Pleasant St. Police officers usually camp on a host of side streets like Norman Ave., Copley Rd., and on portions of Coolidge Rd. that are visible from Pleasant st. They also sometimes sit in front of or behind parked cars around Newton Hill park/recreation area.
If you are caught here, dispute this ticket in court because of speed surveys being taken in illegitimate blocks of Pleasant St.
Good luck.
Plantation Street near Umass Hospital and Medical School. Right by Funeral Home.
Get off exits 21 or 22 and get onto Plantation St going up the hill toward Umass med school/hospital. As you crest the hill and see the science research buildings on the right and a funeral home by the light on the left, watch out for cops. As a matter of fact, go 30 before you crest the hill. They stand to the right, close to the next stoplight/intersection, directly across from funeral home. Speed changes from 40 (suggested) to 30 right in the middle of a small downhill, but I think they get people right at the top of the hill. They pull people over like 3-4 cars at a time, and it is totally not fair, because right before the 30mph sign, there is a suggested speed of 40mph sign. It is insane. I know multiple people being pulled over when they knew exactly that they were Not speeding.