Albany, Oregon Speed Traps

As you enter Albany from the south, on Pacific Hwy, Just North of Linn Benton Community College, you pass through a gradual left-right S curve and then come to a straight stretch about 3 miles long that leads into Albany. The police will hide on the East side of the road near the pumping station and use laser on the motorists – most typically from the south direction. People are usually traveling 60mph because the closest business is 3 miles north, but the area is listed at 45mph, so be careful.

As you exit one way city streets, you move from a 25mph PSL to either a 30 or 35 area. However, where this changes is when you are out of the city streets on on a two lane bridge (both lanes going in you direction). As you crest the bridge, there is often a police officer in a Crown Victora shooting constant on K band. Expect to get stopped for 10 over, but I’ve heard of some people getting off with just a warning, so actual ticketing is not severe. About 100ft from where the cop is, the speed limit changes to 40, and about 300′ after that, it changes to 45. You can see these signs when you crest the hill, but don’t speed up till you actually get to them.

Due to the vertical curve of the bridge that is being targeted by the police, radar detectors are of limited value. If you are the front car in the pack, you are toast.

Leaving the college towards HWY 34, cops like to park in various places on the left after you gain speed. Busted doing 71 in 55. Fairly rural and wide open, trees and bushes obstruct view of police. Seems noon time is a common time.