Saint Paul, Minnesota Speed Traps

With lots of problems with traffic and the new MTC bus garage located there, cops are sitting facing northbound trying to get those coming off of Case around the bend onto Mississippi. They sit on the bridge and you do not see them until it is too late. They are also getting those that do not stop for the stop signs at this location.

Police officer stands just off of the street at Lexington and St. Clair (and sometimes in other locations along Lex) with handheld radar. As cars come over hill, officer scans pack and signals speeders over to an alley where other officers are waiting to write tickets. It’s a very efficient assembly line – you are given a ticket and then are told to drive out of the alley in the same direction you’re heading when they wave you into the alley.

Other methods on Lex are using motorcycle officers to stop speeders spotted by radar and patrol cars using radar by the side of the road.

Enforcement is extraordinarily heavy in the afternoon from about 4 p.m. until 5 p.m.

Police officers on motorcycles sit on the second to the last cross street before Edgecomb turns into the on-ramp to Interstate 5 and clock traffic as it approaches.

The ones that I have seen involved cops sitting in unmarked squads on the cross streets clocking people and waiting to pull out and pull people over. I have also seen officers with motorcycles parked on the side of the road by a parked car, clocking people coming both ways with a radar gun.

Officer sits in parking lot entrance to a business